Radiant Resilience: Animals’ Survival at Chernobyl

Radiant Resilience: Animals’ Survival at Chernobyl
Author: Zahid Ameer
Publisher: Zahid Ameer
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:
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In the shadow of one of the greatest environmental disasters of the 20th century, a remarkable story of resilience and adaptation emerges. Welcome to "Radiant Resilience: Animals' Survival at Chernobyl," a unique exploration into the untamed wilderness that has reclaimed the lands surrounding the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion in 1986 sent shockwaves through the world, leaving behind a haunting legacy of radiation and destruction. The immediate human toll was devastating, as entire communities were forced to evacuate, and the area surrounding the reactor became a forbidden wasteland. However, amidst this desolation, a testament to the indomitable spirit of nature began to unfold. This eBook delves into the extraordinary stories of the fauna that inhabit the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where radiation levels persistently challenge the boundaries of life. How do animals not only survive but thrive in a place seemingly inhospitable to all living creatures? What lessons can we glean from their tenacity, adaptability, and resilience? "Radiant Resilience" is not merely a chronicle of the flora and fauna that have made Chernobyl their home, but a poignant exploration of the complex interplay between humans and nature. As we navigate an era of growing environmental challenges and global change, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone offers a unique microcosm for understanding the astonishing ability of life to persist against all odds. Through meticulous research, captivating stories, and stunning visuals, this eBook invites you to embark on a journey into the heart of this enigmatic and highly unusual ecosystem. We will encounter a myriad of species and discover how they have not only survived but also evolved in a world where radiation is an ever-present companion. Moreover, "Radiant Resilience" aims to foster a deeper appreciation for the intricate web of life that endures in the face of adversity. By shedding light on the experiences of the non-human inhabitants of Chernobyl, we hope to inspire a more profound respect for the natural world and motivate our collective efforts toward preserving and protecting the delicate balance of ecosystems worldwide. This eBook is a tribute to the indomitable spirit of life, offering insights into the triumph of nature's resilience in the most unlikely of places. As we turn the pages and explore the astonishing stories that unfold within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, let us remember that in the darkest of moments, the radiant resilience of the natural world can illuminate our path forward. Join us on this extraordinary journey into the heart of Chernobyl's wild renaissance, and discover the awe-inspiring tales of "Radiant Resilience: Animals' Survival at Chernobyl."

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Author: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1452954496
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Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.

Midnight in Chernobyl

Midnight in Chernobyl
Author: Adam Higginbotham
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501134639
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A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a movie” (The Wall Street Journal)—a powerful investigation into Chernobyl and how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the history’s worst nuclear disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a “riveting, deeply reported reconstruction” (Los Angeles Times) and a definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. “The most complete and compelling history yet” (The Christian Science Monitor), Higginbotham’s “superb, enthralling, and necessarily terrifying...extraordinary” (The New York Times) book is an indelible portrait of the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will—lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary.

The Chernobyl Herbarium

The Chernobyl Herbarium
Author: Michael Marder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2016-02-26
Genre: Arts in general
ISBN: 9781785420269
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We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections, meditations, recollections, and images - one for each year that has passed since the explosion that rocked and destroyed a part of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The aesthetic visions, thoughts, and experiences that have made their way into this book hover in a grey region between the singular and self-enclosed, on the one hand, and the generally applicable and universal, on the other. Through words and images, we wish to contribute our humble share to a collaborative grappling with the event of Chernobyl. Unthinkable and unrepresentable as it is, we insist on the need to reflect upon, signify, and symbolize it, taking stock of the consciousness it fragmented and, perhaps, cultivating another, more environmentally attuned way of living.

The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster

The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster
Author: David R. Marples
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 331
Release: 1988-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 134919428X
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A personal interpretation of the impact of the Chernobyl disaster both in the Soviet Union and the West, examining the environmental consequences, Soviet media coverage, reconstruction of life in the disaster zone (including the city built for Chernobyl workers) and safety changes in the industry.

The Knowledge

The Knowledge
Author: Lewis Dartnell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0143127047
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How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in the immediate aftermath and to rebuild civilization as quickly as possible? Human knowledge is collective, distributed across the population. It has built on itself for centuries, becoming vast and increasingly specialized. Most of us are ignorant about the fundamental principles of the civilization that supports us, happily utilizing the latest—or even the most basic—technology without having the slightest idea of why it works or how it came to be. If you had to go back to absolute basics, like some sort of postcataclysmic Robinson Crusoe, would you know how to re-create an internal combustion engine, put together a microscope, get metals out of rock, or even how to produce food for yourself? Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the fundamentals upon which they are built. Every piece of technology rests on an enormous support network of other technologies, all interlinked and mutually dependent. You can’t hope to build a radio, for example, without understanding how to acquire the raw materials it requires, as well as generate the electricity needed to run it. But Dartnell doesn’t just provide specific information for starting over; he also reveals the greatest invention of them all—the phenomenal knowledge-generating machine that is the scientific method itself. The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world.

The Chernobyl Herbarium

The Chernobyl Herbarium
Author: Anaïs Tondeur
Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2020-10-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781013286117
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We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections, meditations, recollections, and images - one for each year that has passed since the explosion that rocked and destroyed a part of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The aesthetic visions, thoughts, and experiences that have made their way into this book hover in a grey region between the singular and self-enclosed, on the one hand, and the generally applicable and universal, on the other. Through words and images, we wish to contribute our humble share to a collaborative grappling with the event of Chernobyl. Unthinkable and unrepresentable as it is, we insist on the need to reflect upon, signify, and symbolize it, taking stock of the consciousness it fragmented and, perhaps, cultivating another, more environmentally attuned way of living. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Nuclear Power and Sustainable Development

Nuclear Power and Sustainable Development
Author: International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Nuclear agency
ISBN: 9789201070166
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Transforming the energy system is at the core of the dedicated sustainable development goal on energy within the new United Nations development agenda. This publication explores the possible contribution of nuclear energy to addressing the issues of sustainable development through a large selection of indicators. It reviews the characteristics of nuclear power in comparison with alternative sources of electricity supply, according to economic, social and environmental pillars of sustainability. The findings summarized in this publication will help the reader to consider, or reconsider, the contribution that can be made by the development and operation of nuclear power plants in contributing to more sustainable energy systems.

Our Planet

Our Planet
Author: Alastair Fothergill
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0399581553
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With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is the striking photographic companion to the Emmy–winning NETFLIX original documentary series, presenting never-before-seen visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action and the environmental change that has to be seen to be believed. With six hundred members of crew filming in fifty countries over four years, the directors that brought us the original Planet Earth and Blue Planet now take readers on a journey across all the globe’s different biological realms to present stunning visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action, and environmental change on a scale that must be seen to be believed. Featuring some of the world's rarest creatures and previously unseen parts of the Earth―from deep oceans to remote forests to ice caps―Our Planet takes nature-lovers deep into the science of our natural world. Revealing the most amazing sights on Earth in unprecedented ways, alongside stories of the ways humans are affecting the world’s ecosystems―from the wildebeest migrations in Africa to the penguin colonies of Antarctica―this book places itself at the forefront of a global conversation as we work together to protect and preserve our planet. With a keepsake package featuring debossing and foil stamping, this groundbreaking coffee-table book reveals the most amazing sights on Earth in unprecedented ways.

Alaska's Tundra and Wildlife

Alaska's Tundra and Wildlife
Author: Robin Dublin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781890692100
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Covers elements of alpine and lowland ecosystems, the role of wind, cold, snow and permafrost, animal and plant survival techniques, tundra food chains and food webs, the fragility and resistance of plants, animals and the land, and conservation issue investigations.