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Published online 9 August 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050808-4
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Chernobyl ecosystems 'remarkably healthy'
Despite high radioactivity, plants and animals seem to be thriving.
Chernobyl's ecosystems seem to be bouncing back, 19 years after the region was blasted with radiation from the ill-fated reactor. Researchers who have surveyed the land around the old nuclear power plant in present-day Ukraine say that biodiversity is actually higher than before the disaster.
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