Chernobyl’s Wild Kingdom Life in the Dead Zone

Rebecca L. Johnson, "Chernobyl’s Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1467711543 | PDF | pages: 68 | 9.1 mb
After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface. But the Dead Zone, as the contaminated area is known, doesn’t look dead at all. In fact, wildlife seems to be thriving there. The Zone is home to beetles, swallows, catfish, mice, voles, otters, beavers, wild boar, foxes, lynx, deer, moose―even brown bears and wolves. Yet the animals in the Zone are not quite what you’d expect. Every single one of them is radioactive.