Chernobyl area becomes wildlife haven
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Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching. Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage.
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HRADEK NAD NISOU, Czech Republic -- For more than 60 years, this remote stretch of bottomland was one of the most closely guarded sectors of Central Europe.
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Science & environment: Operation underway to halt a feared invasion of rats from destroying important seabird breeding station
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People can halt the decline of many birds by making their gardens more wildlife-friendly, says a charity.
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BERLIN, Sep 11 (IPS/IFEJ) - When the East German nuclear power plant Rheinsberg  was shut down almost 20 years ago, environmentalists expected  that fauna and flora in nearby Stechlin lake would survive  without further damage.
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Seattle scientists studying cancer rates among the victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion have found the first direct link between thyroid cancer risk and individual radiation exposures.
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A VITAL lifeline is being thrown to woodland creatures in the region threatened with extinction.  Some butterflies and moths are in severe decline, but the Forestry Commission is taking action to improve their plight.
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By Deirdre Fleming Staff Writer  Imagine hunting bald eagles before they were listed as endangered in 1967, or gray wolves before their numbers vanished from the landscape here.
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Work has started on a new nature centre next to a chemical plant in Barry.   The centre is being created at Cadoxton Ponds, alongside the Dow Corning chemical plan, on Cardiff Road, Barry.
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The number of sites contaminated in the Russian spy radiation alert has doubled to around 12 and is likely to rise again, British Home Secretary John Reid said.Comment
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Britain's town and cities have become key survival safe havens for the country's endangered wildlife, according to a new survey published on Thursday.
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Ducks and geese coated in crude oil were carried to a national wildlife refuge yesterday by volunteers trying to save them from the largest oil spill on the Delaware River in nearly a decade.
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The signs say "KEEP OUT" and warn of radiation contamination, but the mushroom-pickers trudge right past them carrying their pails. Eighteen years after the reactor at Chernobyl in neighboring Ukraine exploded, spewing a cloud of radiation that blew north and contaminated 22 percent of this ex-Soviet republic, activists warn of a new threat facing Belarusians: the longing to return to normal life.
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In the latest discoveries after the the poisoning of an ex- K.G.B. agent, radiation was found at 12 sites in Britain.
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Atomic radiation levels are beginning to decline in the Arctic, years after Soviet nuclear weapons tests and the Chernobyl nuclear accident spewed their fallout over the region, according to a study released Tuesday.
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THE LIVES lives of dozens of birds - including three rare avocet chicks - are in danger after an oil spillage polluted a North-East nature reserve.  Staff at WWT Washington Wetland Centre, on Wearside, were last night monitoring the water at Wader Lake after oil was found.
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The health scare triggered by the death of a former Russian spy in Britain escalated as more radioactive sites were revealed and over 30,000 air passengers were alerted about contaminated planes.