'Severe abnormalities' found in Fukushima butterflies

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2012-08-14 22:19

'Severe abnormalities' found in Fukushima butterflies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19245818

"Exposure to radioactive material released into the environment has caused mutations in butterflies found in Japan, a study suggests.

Scientists found an increase in leg, antennae and wing shape mutations among butterflies collected following the 2011 Fukushima accident.

The link between the mutations and the radioactive material was shown by laboratory experiments, they report.

The work has been published in the journal Scientific Reports."

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Yikes-

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2012-08-16 08:29.

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120809/srep00570/full/srep00570.html

"The collapse of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant caused a massive release of radioactive materials to the environment. A prompt and reliable system for evaluating the biological impacts of this accident on animals has not been available. Here we show that the accident caused physiological and genetic damage to the pale grass blue Zizeeria maha, a common lycaenid butterfly in Japan. We collected the first-voltine adults in the Fukushima area in May 2011, some of which showed relatively mild abnormalities. The F1 offspring from the first-voltine females showed more severe abnormalities, which were inherited by the F2 generation. Adult butterflies collected in September 2011 showed more severe abnormalities than those collected in May. Similar abnormalities were experimentally reproduced in individuals from a non-contaminated area by external and internal low-dose exposures. We conclude that artificial radionuclides from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant caused physiological and genetic damage to this species."
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120809/srep00570/full/srep00570.html

Canary in the Coal Mine

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2012-08-16 09:53.

The pale blue butterfly mutations serve as ADVANCE WARNING, to other species, including humans.

Harmful genetic mutations are occuring in Japanese plants, animals and humans. The 'children of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disasters', of ALL SPECIES, are, and will forever be: deformed, weak, sickly mutants. There is no 'nice way' to put it.

This is similar to the historic useful function of Canaries in Coal Mines. When the canaries are dead in the bottom of the cage, it is time for the miners to leave and/or go on 100% bottled air. The air is deadly. The canaries merely DIE 1st.

Canary in the Coal Mine