Chernobyl's wildlife 'oasis' after 1986 nuclear disaster now threatened by Putin's war

After the nuclear disaster in 1986, the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl reactor was evacuated amid fears of radioactive ...

Scientists finally explain why these wild boars stay more radioactive than Chernobyl’s wolves

What explains this surprising finding? The answer appears to be a complex mix of history, ecology, and diet. Bavaria’s wild ...

Wasteland turned wildlife hotspot: Nearly 40 years after Chernobyl, nature and science are both thriving in the poisonous land

Back in 1986, when reactor no. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded on April 26, 1986, it sent radioactive fallout ...

Wildlife inside Chernobyl exclusion zone acted differently during Russia's invasion, camera traps reveal

Camera footage in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone revealed that mammals became less active — especially at night — during ...
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Animals Are Thriving in Chornobyl's Human-Free Zone, Study Finds

The explosion of a reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 40 years ago in April 1986 was one of the biggest human-made ...
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Chernobyl’s wildlife changed its behaviour during Russia’s invasion

Camera-trap research found that mammals in the Chernobyl exclusion zone changed their activity patterns during Russia’s 2022 ...

Chernobyl exclusion zone now has more wildlife than Ukraine’s nature reserves, study finds

Radioactive landscape too dangerous for humans now boasts some of the world’s wildest horses, wolves, and Eurasian lynx ...
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Chernobyl area becomes unlikely wildlife haven

PARISHEV, Ukraine — Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the ...
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Scientists are still learning from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

As a blue coach pulls up outside Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, friendly stray dogs approach it. It has passed through multiple Ukrainian military checkpoints—necessary since Russian troops briefly ...