Discovery That Trees Give Off ELECTRICITY Creates A Buzz

    Levels of charged ions twice as high in wooded areas
    Deep-rooted trees such as eucalyptus even higher
    Effect created by trees ‘channelling’ radiocative radon gas from soil
    Not thought to be harmful to health on its own
    
Trees give off electricity, scientists say – especially eucalyptus.

Scientists in Australia found the area round trees was filled with charged particles – ions – both positive and negative.

Levels were twice as high in wooded areas as they are in open, grassy areas, and deep-rooted trees such as eucalyptus were even higher.

The researchers from Queensland University of Technology don’t believe that the ions are in themselves harmful to health.

Researchers have long believed there is a link between trees and electricity in the atmosphere but have been unable to prove the association.