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 plant.
The Cool Down on MSN

Dogs in Chernobyl may be undergoing rapid evolution, study finds

Chernobyl is often presented as evidence that wildlife can flourish in radioactive landscapes.
Dagens.com on MSN

Chernobyl, 40 years on: How wildlife returned to one of the most toxic places on Earth

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, wildlife has returned in large numbers—suggesting that the absence of humans may ...

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

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...

‘Nature has performed a factory reset’: Chernobyl has flourished into an unlikely wildlife refuge

On the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the site remains too dangerous for humans – but wildlife has moved ...
Arizona Daily Star

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 ...
AOL

Chernobyl is too radioactive for humans – but wild animals are thriving like never before

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a radioactive landscape too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Przewalski’s horses – stocky, sand-coloured, and almost toy-like – ...
The Economist

Scientists are still learning from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...
Scientific American

Wildfire breaks out in Chernobyl exclusion zone

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...
Phys.org

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

In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...