Wild Animals Are Thriving in Chornobyl 40 Years After the Disaster, and the Reason Why Is Pretty Depressing

Forty years after one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, Chernobyl has become something nobody anticipated: a wildlife sanctuary.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B has documented a striking number of large animals thriving inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 2,600-square-kilometer stretch of northern Ukraine that has been […]

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