I have not been able thus far to confirm the return this spring of the similar Japanese robin (Larvivora akahige) to Japan's mountains, but intend to search higher mountains for it when the weather permits before drawing even a tentative conclusion. I am similarly concerned about the fate of two other non-related species. I'm not the only person noting diminished prevalence of birds. Others in Japan tell me sparrows have become rare in their town, or exhibit changed behavior flocking in the reeds along streams, but rarely venturing beyond them, or that kites once prominent in their area have disappeared. In July 2019, Max Silverman, a bird-watching enthusiast in the UK, wrote "Where Have All the Birds Gone." In Houston, Texas, a cousin wrote to all our relatives about the white-winged doves in her area this June, saying "I'm tempted to think my birds are feeling stressed trying to figure out the 'new normal.' Maybe they even sense stress in the human environment around their trees."*
Meanwhile, this spring in Germany, a "previously unidentified disease" was killing off small songbirds according to the German conservation organization NABU (in German). NABU's response to this is to tell people to stop feeding birds to help them "socially distance." The birds appear apathetic with breathing problems and unquenchable thirst before dying. According to U.S. author and activist Arthur Firstenberg, thirst is a widely reported symptom of microwave exposure, and the highest numbers of deaths occurred in an area that previously only had 2G service, where Vodafone had just announced an expansion of its 4G-LTE network.
It bears noting that whales are also known to use internal magneto-receptors to navigate, and thus, mass beachings of whales have been found to be triggered by radio bursts from solar storms. In fact, Goychuk (2018) reports "Magnetic nanoparticles are met across many biological species ranging from magnetosensitive bacteria, fishes, bees, bats, rats, birds, to humans." They can be biogenetic in origin or result from environmental contamination. He discusses "magnetosensitive ion channels" in cells, with magnetic nanoparticles serving as sensory elements.
The 'Bugocalypse'
The disappearance of insects in recent years has been so well documented and widely reported that I hardly need mention it. These declines are occurring worldwide in all types of habitats, including protected nature reserves in Germany and rain forests in Puerto Rico, which has seen a 97-98% decline in insect numbers from the 1970s). Most experts blame pesticides, habitat loss and climate change, all of which are extremely likely contributing factors and formidable problems in their own right. No one disputes the negative impact this will have on the planet's ecosystems overall, or its contribution to the disappearance of birds. But adding further microwave radiation will only make things worse.
Research specific to 5G radiation has been reported by Thielens et al. (2020), who say that a shift to higher frequencies from below 3GHz will lead to a relative increase in the amount of power absorbed by honeybees by a factor higher than 3, resulting in dielectric heating. They say that as frequency increases to 6-12 GHz, the EMFs are less likely to diffract around honeybees, which are relatively small in comparison to the wavelengths under 6GHz, generating higher internal electric fields.
The mass disappearance of bees in "colony collapse disorder" has been widely blamed on pesticides, but Belgian zoologist Cammaerts (2017) found that the sharp decline in bees did not coincide with the use of insecticides, but started much later on and has not been ameliorated as much as expected by removal of the pesticides. She advises beekeepers to consider radiofrequency radiation exposure as a possible causative factor, and take steps to reduce it.
Zoologists Sharma and Kumar (2010) in India placed cell phones in hives and measured parameters of hive strength, observing declines in bees' health, brood, ability to return to the hive, egg laying, honey stores and pollens stores. They said, "There was neither honey nor pollen in the colony at the end of the experiment."
Bees are among the creatures that rely on internal magneto-reception for navigating, so we should not be surprised if they experience difficulties similar to those reported for birds. This would not explain reports of them dropping to the ground dead, however. Excessive heating as suggested above is one possibility. Kumar et al. (2011), also shed more light on this in a follow-up study, in which they observed metabolic disturbances resulting in reduced motor activity in bees subjected to a "talk mode" cellphone. It may be that when subjected to strongly bioreactive microwave transmissions, the bees observed become unable to metabolize properly, and thus immobilized, fall to the ground and die. Kumar et al. also note, "the integument of bees has semiconductor functions" in addition to the role of magnetite granules in their abdomens, making them particularly vulnerable to microwave emissions.
Stressed out Trees and Other Plants
Much research has been done showing effects on plants from "electrosmog" (including microwave transmissions). In a meta-study, Martinez (2003) presented results from a number of researchers. Schmutz et al. (1996), he said, found a long-term drop in calcium and sulfur levels in beech tree leaves directly related with the power of broadcast microwave radiation; and Pavel et al. (1998) reported cytogenetical changes (micronuclei, interchromosomal bridges and chromosomal fragments) in wheat exposed to microwaves. One of the most well documented cases of harm to trees from radiofrequency radiation occurred in Skrunda, Latvia during the cold war, when the Soviets built a radio location station there. Pine trees were stunted in radial growth in the area of incidence of the radio waves, but not outside of it. Balodis et al. (1996) considered many other environmental and anthropogenic factors but found they had no significant effects on the trees' growth. Martinez noted that different tree species react differently. Some show an accelerated production of resin, for example, and some are stunted, while others experience more vigorous growth. In Switzerland, he said, trees located near a great transmitter grew in in such a way that it seemed they were trying to escape from it and that this phenomenon had been reported elsewhere too. Concerns have been raised that trees under this kind of stress from microwave radiation, already billions of times higher than naturally occurring levels in 2003 according to Martinez, and growing much stronger since then, may be more highly inflammable, raising forest fire risks. Martinez warned, "there is a perfectly established proof of a causal chain of electrical smog-stunted growth-damage to soil-dying trees. Yet the official science ignores it." The tragedy is that technological advancement using optic fiber cable networks and not relying on these transmissions would have been possible if people had only listened to his recommendations. Powerful interests were already well entrenched by then.
As We Wait for 'Indisputable' Evidence of Harm from 5G
The 4th industrial (technological) revolution proceeds at an accelerating pace, with its grand plans for self-driving cars, machine-to-machine communications and high-speed Internet access everywhere on Earth. Hundreds of new 5G satellites are being launched every month, with plans for several tens of thousands. Nobody in the media seems to bring up concerns about what effect all those launches will have on the ozone layer, despite reports this spring of an unprecedentedly large ozone hole in the northern hemisphere, noted by Scientific American; or that the soot from these rocket launches will be retained in the stratosphere for years, where it could contribute to global climate change, never mind concerns about the microwave transmissions. These satellites are planned to number in the tens of thousands and have met opposition from the US Navy, American Meteorological Society (AMS), NOAA and NASA for expected interference with crucial transmissions of weather-satellite imagery. Nonetheless, the plans go forward with no interruption. It should astonish everyone that a private enterprise has more influence than the US Navy. (The response from Ajit Pai, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was that NOAA, NASA, AMS and the Navy didn't know what they were talking about.)
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