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TWiEVO 88: Dog days of evolution in the shadows of Chernobyl

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Chernobyl and the Environmental Ecological and Radiological Disaster

Vincent Cevallos: One of the authors now is Norman Klimann, an assistant professor at Columbia University. He says there's a massive exclusion zone around Chernobyl that continues to be a pretty big impact. And so this raises questions about what it means for wildlife to have sort of open access without so much of the influence of humans, he says.Cevillos: There are some obvious new challenges and roadblocks that are in place now, at least for the foreseeable future.

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