Chernobyl wildlife today. But today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, ...

A new survey of wildlife populations in the radiation-contaminated Chernobyl exclusion zone has found that many mammal species -- including elk, roe deer, red deer, wild boar, lynx and wolves ...

See a gallery of Chernobyl’s wildlife here. Valentina Sachepok darted ahead while I chased her through a forest in the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A camera crew ...

Chernobyl wildlife today. But today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, ...

The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, which was evacuated in 1986 after a devastating explosion and fire, has become a wildlife haven on a par with heavily-protected ...

The wildlife population has grown “dramatically,” says Gaschak, who has worked in the zone for the past 30 years. (Read about people in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in " The Nuclear Tourist .") ...

Timothy Mousseau is a professor of biological sciences at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. He has published more than 90 scientific papers about the effects of radiation on wildlife with ...

Today, some hot spots are still 100 times more radioactive than normal. But the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone no longer looks like a wasteland–and a new study suggests that some wildlife is thriving ...

Chernobyl Wildlife Make a Comeback Despite Contamination. The Belarus region devastated by the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident is now teeming with elk, wild boar, deer and wolves.

LONDON — 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, deer and… ...

Maria Urupa, 73, cleans her home near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on May 10. "I've seen a lot of wildlife here," she says, claiming that wolves ate two of her dogs.

Just Like Chernobyl, Wildlife Is Thriving at Fukushima Almost a Decade After Nuclear Disaster. Published Jan 07, 2020 at 12:45 PM EST Updated Jan 08, 2020 at 6:51 AM EST. By Rosie McCall .