Sunday, April 22, 2007
Cellphones may be the end of world's bees
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Storms over the CapePosted by Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross - IOL News).
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the cellphone could cause massive food shortages as the world's harvests fail.
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by cellphones and other high-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops.
Late last week, some beekeepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the United States, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.
The theory is that radiation from cellphones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing them from finding their way back to their...
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Storms over the CapePosted by Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross - IOL News).
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the cellphone could cause massive food shortages as the world's harvests fail.
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by cellphones and other high-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops.
Late last week, some beekeepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the United States, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.
The theory is that radiation from cellphones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing them from finding their way back to their...
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| 2007-04-22 11:57 | 5.1 | -3.7310 | -81.1700 | 41.6 | NEAR THE COAST OF NORTHERN PERU |
| 2007-04-22 10:28 | 5.1 | 25.6550 | 125.1590 | 10.0 | SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN |
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| 2007-04-21 17:20 | 5.5 | -13.9110 | 166.8810 | 40.7 | VANUATU |
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| 2007-04-21 00:32 | 5.4 | 21.1770 | 122.1320 | 35.0 | TAIWAN REGION |
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| Network: EMSC | |||||
| 2007-01-02 03:13 | 5.1 | 27.0400 | 140.4000 | 348.0 | BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION |
| 2007-01-01 11:14 | 5.0 | -8.1100 | 106.5900 | 10.0 | SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA |
| 2007-01-01 00:31 | 5.1 | 1.5200 | 67.1800 | 33.0 | CARLSBERG RIDGE |
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| 2007-01-01 00:18 | 5.0 | -26.2300 | 179.8400 | 275.0 | SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS |
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| 2006-12-31 14:55 | 5.5 | -37.4400 | -70.6900 | 40.0 | NEUQUEN, ARGENTINA |
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| 2006-12-30 22:34 | 5.3 | 43.3400 | 146.3700 | 60.0 | KURIL ISLANDS |
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| 2007-03-31 19:02 | 16.720 | -62.180 | Orange | Soufriere Hills | West Indies |
| 2007-03-27 09:02 | -0.980 | 100.680 | Orange | Talang | Sumatra |
| 2007-03-31 19:02 | 1.110 | 124.730 | Orange | Soputan | Sulawesi |
| 2007-03-28 06:02 | -19.520 | 169.430 | Orange | Yasur | So. Pacific |
| 2006-09-07 08:02 | -7.940 | 112.950 | Orange | Tengger | Java |
| 2007-03-31 06:02 | -16.360 | 70.700 | Orange | Ubinas | Peru |
| 2007-03-27 12:02 | 37.730 | 15.000 | Orange | Mt. Etna | Sicily |
| 2007-03-28 19:02 | 1.220 | -77.170 | Orange | Galeras | Colombia |
| 2007-03-27 12:02 | -2.750 | 35.900 | Orange | Ol Doinyo Lengai | E. Africa |
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