Share Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations. The new findings are helping experts contextualize how such ecological catastrophes influence the environment around them, and how these effects ripple out over time. Chernobyl’s reactor meltdown remains history’s worst nuclear disaster. The initial explosion killed two facility workers on April 26, 1986, but at least another 28 people succumbed to acute radiation poisoning and associated issues over the next three months….
