Surviving in a poisoned land: Chernobyl's wildlife is different, but not in the ways you might think

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power ...
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What Chernobyl’s dogs can teach us about survival

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, feral dogs in the exclusion zone have become both a symbol of resilience ...

40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl

A 2,600km² exclusion zone was established following the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, which ...

Chernobyl's wildlife: The real story isn't the presence of radiation, it's the absence of humans

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...
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Chernobyl guardians are passing radiation mutations on to their children

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

Chernobyl’s Wolf Population Is Now 7 Times Higher Than Before the Disaster

Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.
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DNA Mutations Found in Children of Chernobyl Workers

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of those originally exposed, researchers have found – the first time such ...

Inside the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 40 years on: ‘We’ll be lucky to be alive tomorrow’

'We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.' ...