WiFi is creating significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and cracking in the bark of trees. Currently, we live immersed in a cocktail of frequencies, odes, and invisible networks that generate a kind of field over us. Hundreds of radio waves, network frequencies such as wireless Internet WiFi, satellite waves, and electromagnetic fields used by mobile phones, among others, make up this artificial and ethereal fauna. Although the effects of this digital lasagna on the health of human beings have not yet been confirmed, there is already a study that evaluates its consequences on the state of trees and this research concluded that WiFi is harmful to them.
WIFI is causing radiation that makes trees sick
According to the study carried out in Holland by Wageningen University, the radiation emitted by WiFi networks negatively affects the development of trees that are directly exposed to it. Among the symptoms detected are abnormal growth patterns, as well as fissures and “bleeding” in the bark.
Apparently, 70% of the trees located near urban centers in the Netherlands show the same deficiencies, which does not occur with those that are protected in forested areas far from cities. But perhaps the most worrying thing is that just five years ago only 10% of trees showed these symptoms.
The term WiFi corresponds to Wireless Fidelity and basically refers to the wireless network that uses the frequencies of various devices to connect remotely and is the network that computers use to connect to the network without having to be linked through a cable to a modem.
This story was originally published in Spanish in Ecoosfera
