Sunday, April 15, 2007

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?


Independent UK:

Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees

The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast....

The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".

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