What are the effects of radio waves?

Question

The bad effects on people, animals, the earth and anything else?

Answer 1

There are no conclusive results that show harm caused by low levels of exposure to rf (radio frequencies) on humans, animals.

Answer 2

That depends on what kind of radio waves. Radio waves are one kind of electromagnetic radiation like light or gamma rays. They can have different effects depending on the radio wave frequency and energy level.

Low frequency radio waves can shock or kill and create sparks that can ignite flammable vapors. Higher frequency radio waves can heat things up--this is how a microwave oven works. Microwave radiation can heat up and damage internal organs and the eyes are especially vulnerable.

Answer 3

you need to narrow your question a bit. "Radiation" means radio waves, heat, light andwhat's called "ionizing radiation." By far the major source of the firstthree is the Sun, while the last I believe comes principally from cosmicrays and various naturally radioactive elements like uranium and radon.
The most significant manmade sources of exposure would --- I think --- behousehold wiring and appliances (radio), engines and heating devices(heat), lamps (light), and X-ray machines, flying at high altitude inairplanes, and living in well-insulated homes built over radon sources(ionizing radiation). Heat, light and ionizing radiation play vital rolesin the ecology of the Earth. Radio, light (in particular "tanning"ultraviolet), and ionizing radiation have all been widely assumed at
different times to be particularly good or particularly bad for humanhealth. Some recent issues of public concern have been the effect of radiowaves from electric transmission lines, the effect on skin cancer incidencefrom tanning and sunburns, the depletion of the ultraviolet-light-producedozone in the upper atmosphere by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), "global warming" from the increased absorption of heat radiation from the surface by atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane, and the effect of a long exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation as for example the people of
Eastern Europe are experiencing from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.

Answer 4

there are no medical journal articles which prove that radio waves cause harm, including the microwave/radio emitted from cell phones, the wavelengths are simple too long and not energetic enough to cause tissue damage

the wavelengths that are emitted from cell phones DO NOT cause damage in the amounts present in normal usage, now when you decrease the size of the wavelengths to those that are used in microwave ovens then of course damage may occur

Answer 5

I was studying that subject before being retired

We found that with normal amounts of waves such as we experienced each day they are NOT HARMFUL