Are you an animal lover? Or a lover of plants? Part 1

November 6, 2025

Did you know that plants, animals, insects, fish and other creatures, including our pets, are highly susceptible to radiofrequency (wireless) radiation? And did you know that, with the proliferation of radiation-emitting ground-based networks and satellites radiating back toward Earth, there is virtually no habitat left that is truly free of man-made radiation, which is substantively different from natural fields?

In a new paper, author B. Blake Levitt and team discuss how man-made electromagnetic fields (EMFs), and particularly wireless radiofrequency radiation (RFR), are affecting flora and fauna and what we can do about it.

She says that animals and plants – like us – evolved within the Earth’s electromagnetic fields and have adapted to respond to it. Many species detect and use natural magnetic fields for navigation, finding food, mating and communication. Amazingly, even trees respond to changing fields – they have been found to change polarity when a thunderstorm approaches and react to an approaching solar eclipse.

Not surprisingly, animals and plants also react to anthropogenic (man-made) electromagnetic fields. Levitt explains, ‘Compared to natural geomagnetic fields and Schumann Resonances, anthropogenic EMFs, since their inception, have infused the environment with unusual signaling characteristics, odd waveforms, and modulations at intensities not found in nature.’

And these effects have not been beneficial. According to Levitt, ‘[m]any biological effects have been documented at low intensities comparable to what wildlife experience within 200–500 ft. (61–152 m) of a cell tower. Reported effects include: genetic, growth, and reproductive alterations; increases in permeability of the blood brain barrier; stress protein increases; behavioral changes; molecular, cellular, and metabolic alterations; and increases in cancer risk.’ This exposure may also play a role in the collapse of bee colonies.

To illustrate the way plants and animals are affected by man-made, as opposed to natural, electromagnetic fields, Levitt refers to numerous plant studies. ‘[P]lants, trees, and seeds respond positively, e.g., increased germination, cell growth, and vitality to natural static and ELF-EMF, but react adversely to RFR with failure to germinate or thrive, and with increased dieback.’

Plants and animals are now exposed to more wireless radiation than ever. In most homes, they’re exposed to WiFi, mobile phones and myriad wireless devices. In nature, they’re exposed to radiation from satellites and mobile phone towers and other radiating infrastructure.

When it comes to phone towers, proximity could be a real problem for some creatures, Levitt suggests. ‘Depending on radiation patterns, absorption rates for small animals at ground level can be significantly higher too due to their smaller size.’

She postulates that the massive increase in wireless radiation may help explain unprecedented species loss over the last few decades.

So how will the expansion of 5G networks affect the picture?

5G will expose plants and animals to fields unlike any that have come before. Levitt explains, ‘5G utilizes for the first time even more novel signaling characteristics—i.e., phased arrays with high peak exposures, Massive MIMO (multiple-in, multiple out sequencing), and focused beam steering that targets devices but passes through everything in its path—at higher frequencies >6 GHz that are capable of affecting insect populations in particular. Nothing like 5G has ever been used in broad civilian applications. And it is being deployed without environmental review of any kind.’

This could be a real problem for insects, including our valuable pollinators. ‘[T]he shift to higher [5G] frequencies alone is detrimental to insects because their absorption rate is higher and thermoregulation abilities are lower.’

Levitt and team are critical of the two key documents that guide international exposure regulations. ‘One glaring problem is that newest exposure regulations for humans by The International Commission on Non-ionizing Radiation Protection that are widely adopted throughout Europe and elsewhere now allow for higher RF exposures in the 5G ranges and are expected to top heating thresholds even for humans. U.S. regulations created by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, already allow higher exposures in 5G frequencies.’

‘Higher allowances for humans may have widespread catastrophic environmental impacts from insect mortality alone, capable of punching holes in the entire food web. The human food supply is potentially endangered from just this one new technology.’

Unfortunately, neither of the above documents takes into account the importance of protecting plants and wildlife.

Levitt BB, Lai HC, Manville AM II and Scarato T (2025) Flora and fauna: how nonhuman species interact with natural and man-made EMF at ecosystem levels and public policy recommendations. Front. Public Health 13:1693873. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1693873

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