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What Do Chernobyl’s Black Frogs Tell Us About the Region’s Lasting Radiation?
Unlike traditional eastern tree frogs, which have bright green skin, the majority of the Chernobyl frogs instead have black skin. A 2022 study seems to highlight how the melanin in the skin of ...
Chernobyl frogs exposed to radiation show no signs of accelerated aging or increased stress hormone levels
telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs, Biology Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0287 The ...
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Russian soldiers caused a radioactive cloud in the most polluted area of Chernobyl
REFILE - CORRECTING DATE The specter of Chernobyl contamination was embodied ... so-called “red forest” (because of the color the trees took because of the nuclear explosion), the most ...
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Insects Might Be More Sensitive to Radiation than Thought
A few years ago, on one of her first visits to Chernobyl, Katherine Raines went to the Red Forest, a radioactive cemetery of pine trees scorched by the nuclear accident in 1986. She was curious to see ...
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Risks posed by hole in protective shell over Chernobyl
When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell over the damaged nuclear reactor in Chernobyl was one of the biggest structures ever moved by humans. In February a Russian drone put a hole in it.