Russia Captured Chernobyl. The Wildlife Cameras Kept Recording.

A rare camera-trap study logged the effects of armed conflict on wild animals in real time. By Emily Anthes The radioactive ...

Forty years on, Chernobyl’s dead zone is teeming with life, and the reason surprises many

A radioactive rewilding laboratory Off-limits to people since 1986, the roughly 2,600-square-kilometer Exclusion Zone has ...
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Bears now roam the Chernobyl dead zone - and the mutations are hard to ignore

After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

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 the Russian occupation, highlighting the war's immediate impact on ...
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Blue Dogs Are Spotted at Site of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

Blue dogs have been sighted at Chernobyl. Earlier this month, a few dogs at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine appeared to have bright blue fur, according to an Instagram post from Dogs of ...
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Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is a testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, ...
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Chernobyl animals worse affected than thought-study

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The Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Study Suggests

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...
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Baby Birds Born In Chernobyl Have Weird Microbiomes But Are Surprisingly Healthy

Growing up can be tough. You might imagine it would be even tougher in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), the roughly 1,000 square mile expanse of northern Ukraine left contaminated by the 1986 ...
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Are The Irradiated Dogs In Chernobyl Evolving?

Could the dogs inside of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) be experiencing rapid evolution due to their exposure to the nuclear radiation left behind after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986? Some ...
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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 – ...
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Chernobyl animals worse affected than thought

LONDON (Reuters) - Radiation has affected animals living near the site of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster far more than was previously thought, a study showed on Wednesday, challenging beliefs ...