Chernobyl Birds Have Smaller Brains, Shorter Lives
An abandoned ferris wheel in Pripyat, Ukraine, near the Chernobyl disaster site. Photo credit: Andrzej KaroĊ / Creative Commons Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster , research is showing that prolonged exposure to the remaining low-dose radiation has a serious impact on wildlife in the region. New research has found that birds living near Chernobyl have, on average, a brain 5 percent s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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