Et si l’effet Tchernobyl n'existait pas ?

What if Chernobyl deceived us? April 26, 1986: One of the Chernobyl reactors explodes. In the days that follow, to avoid radiation, more than 100,000 people are evacuated. In this vast abandoned zone, nature will gradually reclaim its territory… But when humans leave, does nature always automatically reclaim its territory? Lucas wanted to find out. Lucas Explains. Sources: Several images of Chernobyl animals are from the TREE project ➔ ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/tree Study on areas being abandoned by the team of scientists including Peter Matanle, 2025 ➔ https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01... The Living Planet Report from the Zoological Society of London and WWF, cited in Peter Matanle's study, 2024 ➔ https://livingplanetindex.org/ Study on the return of several species to Chernobyl, 2015 ➔ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.08... Another study on Chernobyl, 35 years later: nature reclaiming its rights, 2019 ➔ https://doi.org/10.64628/AAP.wtxy665fv UNEP on Chernobyl, 2020 ➔ https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories... Work by Timothy Mousseau and other scientists on the remaining problems at Chernobyl ➔ https://doi.org/10.64628/AAK.eqxqpknv6 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mrgentox.... http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pon... World Bank Demographic Data, 2026 ➔ https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/... https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/... UN Population Projections, 2024 ➔ https://population.un.org/wpp/assets/... The Japanese Ministry of the Environment's "Monitoring Sites 1000" program, launched in 2003 ➔ https://www.biodic.go.jp/moni1000/fin... 🔔 To make sure you don't miss any Brut videos, subscribe and turn on notifications:    / @brutfr