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Mobile phones and the birds and the bees

Posted by smeddum on December 26, 2008

 

Mobile phones and the birds and the bees

By Ken Banks , IDG News Service , 12/19/2008    
“An article recently published in the popular press has suggested that there may be a link between the increase in numbers of mobile phone masts and the reduction in local sparrow populations. The number of sparrows in Britain has effectively halved from 24 million approximately thirty years ago to a present day figure of 14 million, a decrease of almost 50%.”

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Butterflies scarce after two wet summers

Posted by seumasach on August 25, 2008

“A bad summer’ is a bit of an understatement I would say: there are just no, or next to no, butterflies, bees, beetles and hardly any birds. So, finally, after several million years of evolution and surviving the biblical deluge they have succumbed to a bit of heavy rain. It’s amazing we’ve got this far really and I suppose we should, at least, be grateful for that. At risk of being bores we at ITNT continue to point out that what is really new about the last twenty years is the proliferation of RF EM radiation, fraudulently claimed to be safe in contrast to ionising radiation(see our RH column).

Michael McCarthy

Independent

25th August, 2008

Britain’s butterflies are going through their worst summer for nearly half a century, a leading conservationist believes. Matthew Oates, conservation adviser to the National Trust, says the torrential downpours of summer 2007 had a knock-on effect on 2008, wiping out many eggs and caterpillars that would have become this year’s adults.

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