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Forty Years After Chernobyl, Animals Are Thriving in the Exclusion Zone
Four decades after one of history’s worst nuclear disasters turned a vast stretch of northern Ukraine into a restricted zone, something unexpected is happening among its abandoned buildings and overgrown forests. Wolves roam through the landscape, wild horses move across open ground, and other large mammals have established a presence in an area once defined…
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How Apex Predators Brought Aspen Back From the Brink
For much of the twentieth century, Yellowstone National Park told a story of loss that unfolded quietly across its valleys, rivers, and open meadows. Visitors still arrived in awe of geysers, wildlife, and sweeping mountain views, but beneath that surface beauty, an essential part of the ecosystem was slowly unraveling. Quaking aspen, one of North…
