Chernobyl's wild kingdom : life in the dead zone / Rebecca L. Johnson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 64 pages : illustrations, (some color), color maps ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1467711543 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 9781467711548 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 590.9477 J68 | Checked out | 05/11/2024 | 33111007607928 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface. But the Dead Zone, as the contaminated area is known, doesn't look dead at all. In fact, wildlife seems to be thriving there. The Zone is home to beetles, swallows, catfish, mice, voles, otters, beavers, wild boar, foxes, lynx, deer, moose--even brown bears and wolves. Yet the animals in the Zone are not quite what you'd expect. Every single one of them is radioactive.
In Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom, you'll meet the international scientists investigating the Zone's wildlife and trying to answer difficult questions: Have some animals adapted to living with radiation? Or is the radioactive environment harming them in ways we can't see or that will only show up in future generations? Learn more about the fascinating ongoing research--and the debates that surround the findings--in one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-61) and index.
Nuclear nightmare -- Wild kingdom -- Resistant rodents -- A swallow's tale -- Learning from Chernobyl.
Looks at the events of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in the Ukraine, describing how scientists are monitoring the effects of radiation on the wildlife that continue to live there and what this means for the human population surrounding the area.
Ages 12-18.