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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New DNA mutations uncovered in children of Chernobyl workers

A reanalysis of whole-genome data from 130 children conceived after the Chernobyl disaster has identified a statistically significant increase in a specific type of DNA mutation in the offspring of ...

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." ...

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 ...

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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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 ...
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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 ...