https://bgr.com/2020/09/21/cell-phone-ra...s-insects/
SUMMARY POINTS:
An analysis of over 80 studies shows a direct link between mobile phone and Wi-Fi radiation and declining insect populations.
Radiation can affect insects at the cellular level and cause serious problems with their behavior and health, specifically by causing them to absorb calcium ions at a higher rate than normal.
It can also cause them to fall out of their usual sleep/wake cycles and even make them more susceptible to illness.
There is no clear solution, as we’re unlikely to give up our mobile communications any time soon. (
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I guess that we can put this 10 year old article to bed...
https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentof...n-wins.php
Might think that early life on Earth were exposed to all kinds of nasty stuff. Does it mean life has wimped out over the millennia, becoming much softer and less resistant.
(Sep 22, 2020 03:38 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]I guess that we can put this 10 year old article to bed...
https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentof...n-wins.php
Might think that early life on Earth were exposed to all kinds of nasty stuff. Does it mean life has wimped out over the millennia, becoming much softer and less resistant.
Early life was single-celled rather than complex organisms, though. I suspect current insects will adapt to the situation over time. They can't
micro-evolve as fast as bacteria, but they're perhaps the nearest thing to that reproductive rate that our size-scale has.
(Sep 23, 2020 04:01 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Sep 22, 2020 03:38 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]I guess that we can put this 10 year old article to bed...
https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentof...n-wins.php
Might think that early life on Earth were exposed to all kinds of nasty stuff. Does it mean life has wimped out over the millennia, becoming much softer and less resistant.
Early life was single-celled rather than complex organisms, though. I suspect current insects will adapt to the situation over time. They can't micro-evolve as fast as bacteria, but they're perhaps the nearest thing to that reproductive rate that our size-scale has.
Read up on what’s happening to wildlife in the Chernobyl area. Although there are reports of mutations, in general flora and fauna have responded well. It’s like some little isolated ecosystem that somehow managed to survive. The survivors, be they mutants or not must have the right stuff.
Wireless radiation is supposed to be non-ionizing, so there is this irony of how that's affecting both the behavior and the cellular health of the insects potentially more so than the ones in the exclusion zone of Chernobyl.
In the exclusion zone, an animal is content to live and reproduce a few years before cancer kills it prematurely (insects even less than that). Whereas humans with longer life-spans and requiring well over a decade before they can reproduce supposedly can't cope with that significantly shorter number of years (in terms of freedom from ill-effects and fecundity).
However, thousands who survived exposure to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki lived into their 80s. So we're kind of left with the feeling that evacuation and sustained non-residence in contaminated areas stems more from government caretaker hyper-anxiety rather than threat of maximum detriment and extinction. Even for authoritarian nation-states which couldn't be sued by citizens with grievances.