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April 29, 2014

Birds adapting to long-term radiation exposure at Chernobyl
Chernobyl, Ukraine (UPI) Apr 29, 2013
No humans live in the 19-mile exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl, the nuclear disaster which devastated the Ukrainian countryside in 1986, but as ecologists recently showcased, birds have slowly adapted to the area. To better understand how birds were coping with the region's dangerous radioactivity, researchers captured 152 birds of 16 species at various sites within Chernobyl's exclusion zone. The researchers collected feather and blood samples from captured birds. The samples were u ... read more

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