{"id":5651,"date":"2026-06-16T21:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:52:33","slug":"surviving-in-a-poisoned-land-chernobyls-wildlife-is-different-but-not-in-the-ways-you-might-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/16\/surviving-in-a-poisoned-land-chernobyls-wildlife-is-different-but-not-in-the-ways-you-might-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving in a poisoned land: Chernobyl’s wildlife is different, but not in the ways you might think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The story of how Chernobyl has affected wildlife is complicated, argues Jonathon Turnbull, a geographer at Durham University. You can’t just say nature in the exclusion zone is thriving or dying, he says: “There’s the spectacular story of ‘Chernobyl changed everything’ \u2013 that doesn’t go very deep.”

Rather, there exists a menagerie of subtle effects and responses. An entire ecosystem that experienced a terrible disaster but kept living and growing. It’s no surprise, says Turnbull, that so many questions still litter this landscape 40 years on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The story of how Chernobyl has affected wildlife is complicated, argues Jonathon Turnbull, a geographer at Durham University. You can’t just say nature in the exclusion zone is thriving or dying, he says: “There’s the spectacular story of ‘Chernobyl changed everything’ \u2013 that doesn’t go very deep.” Rather, there exists a menagerie of subtle effects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1t9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5652,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions\/5652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}