The following is a list of studies and reports on EMF and radiofrequency electromagnetic (RF) radiation impacts on plants, trees, insects, birds, and mammals. (Updated 2/11/26)

Landmark Research on Effects of Non-ionizing EMFs to Flora and Fauna

Levitt BB, Lai HC, Manville AM. Effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields on flora and fauna, Part 1. Rising ambient EMF levels in the environment.  https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh-2021-0026/pdf?licenseType=free https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh-2021-0026/html
Rev Environ Health. 2021 May 27. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2021-0026. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34047144.

Levitt BB, Lai HC, Manville AM. Effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields on flora and fauna, Part 2 impacts: how species interact with natural and man-made EMF. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh-2021-0050/html https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh-2021-0050/pdf?licenseType=free
Rev Environ Health. 2021 Jul 8. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2021-0050. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34243228.

Levitt BB, Lai HC, Manville AM. Effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields on flora and fauna, Part 3. Exposure standards, public policy, laws, and future directions.  https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh-2021-0083/html
Rev Environ Health. 2021 Sep 27. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2021-0083. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34563106.

Papers by Diana Kordas, ED.M., M.A.

DNA and Developmental Damage from Cell Towers on the Greek Island of Samos: Effects on Insects, Flowers and Vegetables
February 8, 2024

How to Kill a Wetland – the 2023 Spring Migration on Samos, Greece
May 19, 2023

My Best Memories
August 28, 2022

5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek island of Samos
February 22, 2022

Where the Wild Things Aren’t
October 14, 2020

Trees and plants

Observations in Vegetable Fields With and Without Line-of-Sight Exposure to 5G Within First Year of Introduction
Patricia A. Ormsby, 2024

How the Impact of Electromagnetic Fields on Plants Can Greatly Increase Severity of and Even
Occurrence of “Wildfires”: A Four-Part Structure, Martin Pall,  March 17, 2024

Wolfgang Volkrodt, Ph.D., former Siemens scientist in Germany, wrote and published several articles on environmental contaminated by microwaves. “Our environment is contaminated by microwaves. At present, the consequences are largely unexplored; however, observations of trees offer dire foreboding.” The following pdf files offer an introduction and selection of Dr. Volkrodt’s research and supporting documents:

• Background Documents: A Collection http://www.emrpolicy.org/science/forum/volkrodt_background.pdf
• Electromagnetic Pollution of the Environment http://www.emrpolicy.org/science/forum/volkrodt_elect_pollution_environ.pdf
• Are Microwaves Faced with a Fiasco Similar to That Experienced by Nuclear Energy? http://www.emrpolicy.org/science/forum/volkrodt_fiasco.pdf
• Microwave Smog and Forest Damage – Movement in Bonn after All? http://www.emrpolicy.org/science/forum/volkrodt_microwave_smog.pdf
• The Forest Dies as Politicians Look On – Dr. Ulrich Hertel http://www.emrpolicy.org/science/forum/volkrodt_path_dying_forest.pdf
• Letter to Professor Wm. Smith, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies http://www.emrpolicy.org/science/forum/volkrodt_letter_yale.pdf
  (From EMR Policy Institute http://www.emrpolicy.org/science/forum/)

https://www.stopumts.nl/pdf/onderzoek_bomen_planten.pdf
The effects of microwaves on the trees and other plants, Alfonso Balmori Martínez.

http://www.mastsanity.org/health/research/299-why-our-urban-trees-are-dying-by-andrew-goldsworthy-2011.html
Why Our Urban Trees are Dying, Andrew Goldsworthy

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2FNyheder%2FIndland%2F2013%2F05%2F16%2F131324.htm
Experiments with cress in 9th Class attracts international attention, May 16, 2013

Birds

https://mdsafetech.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/unesco-report-on-disappearance-of-species-from-mt.-nardia-with-increased-emr-2000-2015-.pdf
UNESCO: Disappearance of Species from Mt. Nardia Park World Heritage Area 2000-2015 with Increased Expansion of Telecommunications Antennas
Mark Broomhall, 2016

Click to access us_doi_comments.pdf

United States Department of Interior: Comments to U.S. Commerce Department on harm and death to birds from communications towers, February 2014

http://www.livingplanet.be/Balmori_EBM_2005.pdf
Balmori, A. 2005. Possible effects of electromagnetic fields from phone masts on a population of white stork. Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 24:109-119

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13290.html
Anthropogenic electromagnetic noise disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory bird, Nature, May 7, 2014

Birds, bees

Bees, Birds and Mankind – Destroying Nature by Electrosmog, Ulrich Warnke. Kompetenz Initiative, 2007
BIENEN, VÖGEL UND MENSCHEN Die Zerstörung der Natur durch ‚Elektrosmog’
original German
ABEJAS, AVES Y HOMBRES La destrucción de la naturaleza por la contaminación electromagnética
Spanish
DES ABEILLES, DES OISEAUX ET DES HOMMES La destruction de la nature par l’« électrosmog »
French

https://www.diagnose-funk.org/download.php?field=filename&id=473&class=DownloadItem
Review: Biological effects of electromagnetic fields on insects
Alain Thill, 2020

http://www.mastsanity.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=269&Itemid=136
The Birds, the Bees and Electromagnetic Pollution,
Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy, May 2009

Bees

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720384461?dgcid=author
Electromagnetic radiation as an emerging driver factor for the decline of insects
Alfonso Balmori, 2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-56948-0
Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure of Western Honey Bees
Arno Thielens etal, 2020

https://www.diagnose-funk.org/download.php?field=filename&id=473&class=DownloadItem
Biological effects of electromagnetic fields on insects
Alan Thill, 2020

https://mdsafetech.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/unesco-report-on-disappearance-of-species-from-mt.-nardia-with-increased-emr-2000-2015-.pdf
UNESCO: Disappearance of Species from Mt. Nardia Park World Heritage Area 2000-2015 with Increased Expansion of Telecommunications Antennas
Mark Broomhall, 2016

Startseite

https://mdsafetech.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/wireless-silentspring_-sccma-oct-2-2018.pdf
Wireless Silent Spring
Cindy Russell MD, 2018

https://mdsafetech.org/environmental-and-wildlife-effects/
Physicians for Safe Technology

https://ehtrust.org/researc-studies-on-impacts-to-the-environment-from-wireless-trees-plants-pollinators-birds-and-wildlife/
Environmental Health Trust

http://www.avaate.org/article.php3?id_article=2354
BBC NATURE: Bumblebees sense flowers’ electric fields.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/bx23551862212177/fulltext.pdf?MUD=MP
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs13592-011-0016-x.pdf
Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping

http://ahharsfnews.com/2011/05/16/bees-know-best
Bees Know Best at Oceanside’s Prince of Peace Abbey…

http://www.safelandforbees.org.uk/bees-and-microwave-radiation.html
Barrie Trower’s Paper on the bees and microwave radiation.”Will the Communications Industry be the final straw for Our Planet’s Ecosystems?”Presented at the Glastonbury Symposium, July 24th 2010

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4731008/Is-Colony-Collapse-the-price-of-emf-progress-http://d.scribd.com/docs/182szri6xw3uc9rpd2bj.pdf
Is Colony Collapse the price of E.M.F. progress? Barrie Trower, Presentation to the Beekeepers Association, Glastonbury 9th August 2008

Amphibians

http://citizensforsafetechnology.org/uploads/balmori_city_as_lab1.pdf
Mobile Phone Mast Effects on Common Frog – The City Turned into a Laboratory, Balmori
Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 2010

http://citizensforsafetechnology.org/uploads/scribd/CST%20Amphibian%20decline.pdf
The incidence of electromagnetic pollution on the amphibian decline: Is this an important piece of the puzzle? Balmori. Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, Apr.–June 2006; 88(2): 287–299

Insects

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720384461?dgcid=author
Electromagnetic radiation as an emerging driver factor for the decline of insects
Alfonso Balmori, 2021

http://prd34.blogspot.com/2012/07/sense-of-smell-and-sight-perturbed-in.html
Sense of Smell and Sight Perturbed in Ants Exposed to GSM Radiation: Study at Université Libre, Brussels

Protozoa

Click to access Changes_in_Paramecium_caudatum_(Protozoa)_near_a_switched-on_GSM_telephone_M-C_Cammaerts_2011.pdf

http://www.teslabel.be/telephones-mobiles/253-etude-a-lulb-changements-physiologiques-marques-chez-des-protozoaires-places-a-proximite-dun-gsm-
STUDY at ULB: Physiological changes marked in protozoa placed near a GSM

Wildlife and ecosystem

https://mdsafetech.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/unesco-report-on-disappearance-of-species-from-mt.-nardia-with-increased-emr-2000-2015-.pdf
UNESCO: Disappearance of Species from Mt. Nardia Park World Heritage Area 2000-2015 with Increased Expansion of Telecommunications Antennas
Mark Broomhall, 2016

Bees, Birds and Mankind – Destroying Nature by Electrosmog,Ulrich Warnke, 2007

https://mdsafetech.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/wireless-silentspring_-sccma-oct-2-2018.pdf
Wireless Silent Spring
Cindy Russell MD, 2018

https://mdsafetech.org/environmental-and-wildlife-effects/
Physicians for Safe Technology

https://ehtrust.org/researc-studies-on-impacts-to-the-environment-from-wireless-trees-plants-pollinators-birds-and-wildlife/
Environmental Health Trust

http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/final_mobile_towers_report.pdf
Report on Possible Impacts of Communication Towers on Wildlife including Birds and Bees, Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests,   October 2011

http://www.biolmedonline.com/Articles/Vol4_4_2012/Vol4_4_202-216_BM-8.pdf
Impacts of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) from cell phone towers and wireless devices on biosystem and ecosystem – a review, S Sivani, D Sudarsanam
Biology and Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 202–216, Published: 6th Jan 2013

Silent Wireless Spring, Arthur Firstenberg, 2007

http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/07/26/the-green-sheen-wearing-thin-how-corporate-environmental-organizations-are-providing-cover-for-the-mounting-ecological-catastrophe-of-the-%E2%80%9Csmart-grid%E2%80%9D/
The Green Sheen Wearing Thin- How Corporate Environmental Organizations are Providing Cover for the Mounting Ecological Catastrophe of the “Smart Grid”, Joshua Hart, July 2007