I encountered a story on Feedly Politics showing photos of the site this long after the nuclear meltdown. (Wild)Life In A Nuclear Wasteland: 28 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster @ http://www.ibtimes.com/wildlife-nuclear-wasteland-28-years-after-chernobyl-disaster-1576660 only showed drab and dreary photos like this: But then, I got to thinking. If the humans are gone, what about the flora and fauna? How are they doing? Filled with three-eyed animals and strangely formed plant life? So, here's but one result of a search: And there are other sites @ wildlife around Chernobyl today on Bing.com - - - Updated - - - Then, there's this article: Chernobyl's birds adapting to ionizing radiation Date: April 24, 2014 Source: British Ecological Society (BES) Summary: Birds in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl are adapting to -- and may even be benefiting from -- long-term exposure to radiation, ecologists have found. The study is the first evidence that wild animals adapt to ionizing radiation, and the first to show that birds which produce most pheomelanin, a pigment in feathers, have greatest problems coping with radiation exposure. Read @ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140424223057.htm
Wildlife thriving in Chernobyl zone with no humans around... In Chernobyl nuclear zone, animals thrive without humans[/i] Thursday 7th April, 2016 - What happens to the environment when humans disappear? Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, booming populations of wolf, elk and other wildlife in the vast contaminated zone in Belarus and Ukraine provide a clue.
An Arch Rises to Seal Melted Reactor... 30 Years After Chernobyl Disaster, an Arch Rises to Seal Melted Reactor 25 Apr.`16 Enter the Chernobyl zone, and you might expect the worst: Security guards at a checkpoint 19 miles away from the site of the worlds worst nuclear accident scan departing vehicles for signs of radiation, as wolfish strays linger around the checkpoint. See also: US Pledges $10 Million to Chernobyl Survivors April 25, 2016 - The United States pledged $10 million to aid those affected by the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster, as Ukraine marks the 30th anniversary of what is described as the world's worst nuclear accident.