Twenty-three years ago, almost no one outside The Ukraine had even heard of Chernobyl. On April 26, 1986 that changed. Reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, killing two people ans causing the eventual evacuation and resettlement of 336,000 people.

Today a 30km Exclusion Zone exists around the site and within it, all residential, civil or business activities are legally prohibited. You’re probably thinking moonscape. Your wrong. The Exclusion Zone is teaming with wildlife.

Cosmos Magazine has this great article that talks about how the very reactor core itself is teaming with life: fungal life. These fungi aren’t just tolerating the severe radiation, researchers believe they are actually harnessing its energy to thrive.

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