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Four decades after the disaster, wildlife is thriving inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear accident forced tens of thousands of people to abandon their homes, the ...
The Conversation

Chernobyl’s exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity – but it faces new threats from Russia’s invasion

Fieldwork in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, May 2019. Germán Orizaola (Universidad de Oviedo), CC BY April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl ...
Reason

Inside the Russian Occupation of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...
EurekAlert!

Chernobyl Background Radiation Map (IMAGE)

Background radiation levels in the Chernobyl area vary widely by location. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...
NPR

Satellite photo shows Russian troops were stationed in Chernobyl's radioactive zone

During its occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear site, Russia appears to have stationed troops in an area of high radioactive contamination, according to new satellite imagery obtained by NPR from the ...
National Geographic

Inside Chernobyl's shadow community, 40 years after disaster

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...