Surviving in a poisoned land: Chernobyl's wildlife is different, but not in the ways you might think 4.3%
BBC - By Chris Baraniuk - 4/26/2026, 9:10 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 11.8% - Negativity Bias 9.7% - Availability Heuristic 8.9%
It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant. "Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa!" In the middle of the night, a noise from the darkness in the abandoned, irradiated landscape of Chernobyl. Pablo Burraco, a scientist, stepped quietly between the trees, not far from the... more