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Originally Posted by niky

Chernobyl isn't even that bad, all things considered.

So you have a few places where plants and animals *might* experience a slightly higher mutation rate than elsewhere, and in which they do sometimes get a little more cancer, but with no humans around to suppress populations, animals will thrive. Even around leaky old nuclear reactors (which mostly have failsafes built into them nowadays, anyway).



More like millenia. The antarctic ice cover has been growing for thousands of years.

But that growth is slowing down.

You don't look at absolutes, you look at trends. And that trend is showing a reversal, as losses of ice in some areas look set to outstrip general gains.

As of 2015,they were losing more from glaciers than they were gaining from snow.Winds have increased in velocity by 10-15% over the last 30-years and are literally blowing snow off the ice cap before it can stick.