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November 29, 2002

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. Chernobyl is virtually synonymous with nuclear disaster, costing an estimated 16,000 lives and over $200 billion. Was it also a disaster for the region's wildlife?

    A. Not unambiguously so, for one of the great puzzles to scientists afterward has been the region's thriving and even expanding populations of species such as wild boar, moose, otters, waterfowl and rodents, say Daniel Botkin et al. in "Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet."


     
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