Sunday, July 31, 2011

Plants Dying in the Middle of Central Tokyo

Saturday, July 30, 2011


Plants Dying in the Middle of Central Tokyo



Radiation? Who knows. One irony of the radioactive fallout from Fukushima I Nuke Plant is that people in Japan have started to pay much more attention to nature around them. So they may be noticing things that was on-going even before the accident. Or they may not.



These are the pictures taken on the sidewalk on Hakusan Dori in Bunkyo-ku in Tokyo, and uploaded on July 30. The air radiation in Bunkyo-ku has been higher than the official Tokyo number (measured in Shinjuku-ku, western central Tokyo), along with several other eastern "ku" (special wards of Tokyo).



The person who took the pictures says, "About 30% of azaleas on the side walk are completely dead. Ginkgo leaves are browning."



Dead azaleas:

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