Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone

by Rebecca L. Johnson

Book Overview

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface. But the Dead Zone, as the contaminated area is known, doesn't look dead at all. In fact, wildlife seems to be thriving there. The Zone is home to beetles, swallows, catfish, mice, voles, otters, beavers, wild boar, foxes, lynx, deer, moose--even brown bears and wolves. Yet the animals...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467711543
• ISBN13: 9781467711548
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary