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  • The Woods Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying

    The Woods Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying

    Like a landscape of the undead, the woods outside Chernobyl are having trouble decomposing. The catastrophic meltdown and ensuing radiation blast of April 1986 has had long-term effects on the very soil and ground cover of the forested region, essentially leaving the dead trees and leaf litter unable to decompose. The result is a forest…