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Elk drinking from a stream

Wildlife thriving around Chernobyl nuclear plant despite radiation

Source: The Guardian

Depending on which experts are talking, the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine and Belarus is either a thriving wildlife sanctuary or a deadly no-man’s land. How well has nature repaired itself after the man-made 1986 disaster?

This entry was posted in The Natural World and tagged Science & Nature on January 1, 2016 by Mikki Gibson.

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