‘Severe abnormalities’ found in Fukushima butterflies By Nick Crumpton BBC News 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. EDITOR:  Remember the post earlier this year with the mutated dandelions?   And yet they’re saying everything is just peachy.   There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity…You can smell it. It smells like death. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

‘Severe abnormalities’ found in Fukushima butterflies

By Nick Crumpton BBC News

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.

EDITOR:  Remember the post earlier this year with the mutated dandelions?   And yet they’re saying everything is just peachy.  

There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity…You can smell it. It smells like death. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.