Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some cases, they carry higher ...
The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...
Just because animals and plants are returning to the Chernobyl nuclear accident site, it does not mean there were no wildlife consequences from the ionizing radiation, especially in the areas that ...
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 ...
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of Earth's most haunting yet paradoxical places, where death and life intertwine in ways no scientist ever predicted. Nearly 39 years after the world's worst ...
Test field at Mezhiliska and location of soil sampling points. Image from Google Earth. Credit: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2025.107698 Thousands of hectares ...