30 Years After Chernobyl, Nature Is Thriving

Fascinating. And all because there are no humans around. Unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily mean the animals are healthy...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, people are still restricted from resettling the evacuation area, dubbed the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The absence of humans has created an opportunity for nature to thrive. A new study using remote cameras reveals abundant populations of gray wolves, raccoon dogs, and red fox.

National Geographic

The Most Radioactive Places on Earth

Not surprisingly, Chernobyl and Fukushima were mentioned and seeing their landscapes were equally as impressive. We've discovered that one way the people in Chernobyl suppressed the radiation at a Chernobyl reactor was by removing a couple metres of top soil from the area and Japan too now, has being doing the same. This is part of a documentary to be broadcast in mid-2015 which shows how Uranium and radioactivity have shaped our present world...  

Veritasium

Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl

UK-based photographer and filmmaker Danny Cooke, captured some amazing drone footages of the eerily beautiful an abandoned radioactive sites in Ukraine, most notably of the city of Pripyat, whilst working for CBS News on a '60 Minutes' episode. The Chernobyl catastrophe of 1986 caused the biggest radioactive release ever, one that is said to be comparable to 200-300 atomic bombs...

Fast Fact: Pripyat was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster. One notable landmark often featured in photographs of the city and visible from aerial-imaging websites is the long-abandoned Ferris wheel located in the Pripyat amusement park.  

Danny Cooke