Wireless industry takes on bird-slaughtering cell towers

Up to five million birds a year may die by crashing into cell phone towers at night. After a court order, the wireless industry has been meeting with the FCC to work out the least painful rules for making new transmitter towers avian friendly.

[via ars technica]

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