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NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 08:22 AM Sep 2015

"govt’ finds strangely deformed trees around Fukushima — Nearly 100% have ‘morphological defects’ "

Radiation fears growing as govt’ finds strangely deformed trees around Fukushima — Nearly 100% have ‘morphological defects’ — “Trees did not have a top bud, without which its growth cannot continue” — Effects worsening over time — Researchers prevented from doing studies… “so little data"

http://enenews.com/radiation-fears-growing-strangely-deformed-trees-found-govt-around-fukushima-98-morphological-effects-trees-top-bud-growth-continue-photos-video



Rocket News, Aug 31, 2015: Radiation fears as report shows Fukushima fir trees to be growing strangely… A new report by the National Institute of Radiological Sciences now suggests that the fir trees in Fukushima may be exhibiting strange growth patterns… the fir trees in the affected area were increasingly found to be stunted and exhibiting signs of morphological change, particularly bifurcation, the splitting of a body into two parts… some of the trees in the affected areas are only branching off into two separate directions at the tip, and exhibiting lack of upward growth… Photo B shows a trunk which has entirely split into two, and photo C shows horizontal growth only, with a distinct lack of vertical growth… You can see in image C how the central, vertical branch of the tree which should be growing upward is missing entirely. The investigation was conducted in January 2015.



Effects worsening over time

Researchers prevented from doing studies



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"govt’ finds strangely deformed trees around Fukushima — Nearly 100% have ‘morphological defects’ " (Original Post) NeoGreen Sep 2015 OP
This should not be a surprise newfie11 Sep 2015 #1

newfie11

(8,159 posts)
1. This should not be a surprise
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 09:03 AM
Sep 2015

Especially for Japan. Then there is Chernobyl and how that area has changed.

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