The Dogs of Chernobyl Were Left for Dead, But They Adapted

When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...
Science Focus

5 seriously strange ways wildlife is changing inside Chernobyl

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.
Post Register

Chernobyl and its wildlife: Part two

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 ...
Arizona Daily Star

Chernobyl area becomes unlikely wildlife haven

PARISHEV, Ukraine — Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the ...
Southeast Missourian

Zone near Chernobyl nuclear plant becomes wildlife haven

PARISHEV, Ukraine -- Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the ...
AOL

The Resilience of Life: How Chernobyl’s “Mutant” Wildlife Is Rewriting the Rules of Survival

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Study: Chernobyl wolves show genetic traits linked to cancer resistance

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked to reduced cancer risk, according to research described by Princeton ...
Fox Business

Chernobyl’s mutant wolves developing resistance to cancer, study says

Wolves in Chernobyl’s radiation zone appear to have developed a resistance to cancer after being exposed to high levels of radiation in the wake of the nuclear disaster 35 years ago, according to a ...
Reuters

Nature thrives in Chernobyl, site of worst nuclear disaster

LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - - Some 30 years after the world's worst nuclear accident blasted radiation across Chernobyl, the site has evolved from a disaster zone into a nature reserve, teeming with elk ...
Reuters

WITNESS: Wildlife and radiation in evacuated Chernobyl zone

BABCHIN, Belarus (Reuters) - We venture out at dawn from a dilapidated shack nestled in a forest to see the animals, although rising early is not always necessary. Still inhospitable to humans, the ...
The Advocate

Study shows wildlife thriving at Chernobyl nuclear site

Wild boar run past abandoned farm houses near the site of the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. (Valeriy Yurko photo) One might think a fire and explosion at a nuclear power plant might ...