{"id":4371,"date":"2015-10-05T13:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2015-10-06T02:23:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T06:23:34","slug":"the-nature-of-chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-nature-of-chernobyl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of Chernobyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4372\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100088_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4372\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100088_web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Roe deer near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. (Image credit: Tatyana Deryabina)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100088_web-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100088_web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100088_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roe deer near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. (Image credit: Tatyana Deryabina)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the site of the Chernobyl disaster, animals are thriving, according to findings from a long-term census. Researchers found populations of native wildlife, such as elk, deer, boars, and wolves, have bounced back, reaching a population size similar to nearby nature reserves.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers note that this growth in population occurred at a time when boar and elk were declining in other areas of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>One of the authors, Jim Smith from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, said \u201cthis doesn&#8217;t mean radiation is good for wildlife, just that the effects of human habitation, including hunting, farming, and forestry, are a lot worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cub.2015.08.017\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in<em>\u00a0Current Biology\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>October 5<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>J. T. Smith, University of Portsmouth, School of Earth &amp; Environmental Sciences, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the site of the Chernobyl disaster, animals are thriving, according to findings from a long-term census. Researchers found populations of native wildlife, such as elk, deer, boars, and wolves, have bounced back, reaching a population size similar to nearby nature reserves. The researchers note that this growth in population occurred at a time when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,170,2462,1445,2461,2343],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-chernobyl","tag-conservation","tag-nature","tag-nuclear"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100088_web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-18v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4373,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}