Since Russia is on fire and losing crops, they could probably use a seed bank
photo by Yulia Smirnova (Flickr Creative Commons) Record summer temperatures and drought have caused around 800 wildfires, which in turn covered Moscow in a cloud of poisonous smoke. Now some 28 fires...
View ArticleChernobyl: Green shoots in a disaster zone
photo by Andrzej Karoń (Flickr CC) In 1946, in the aftermath of the atomic bomb detonation in Hiroshima Japan, American journalist John Hersey traveled to the devastated city to write an article,...
View ArticleSlow decomposition of forests makes Chernobyl even more dangerous
Due to the radiation damage caused by the nuclear disaster of 1986, the decomposition of fallen leaves and trees has slowed down drastically in the area surrounding Chernobyl. The accumulated organic...
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