When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the ...
More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced a mass evacuation, the region remains a ghost town for humans. But when humans go away, wildlife comes right back in. Among the most ...
Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.
Wild boar roaming the forests around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant now carry domestic pig DNA, a genetic legacy of the chaos that followed the 2011 nuclear disaster. When residents ...
In the ghost towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, a ...