Explore: Contaminated Forests

season, forest fires are a perennial concern in areas contaminated by radioactive material. Dry conditions and build-up of debris make the forests a ripe

responsible for decomposing forest litter do not act on such matter within the contaminated zone at nearly the rate seen in forests outside the zone. As a

June 2007. (139 KB) Allard, Gillian. "Fire prevention in radiation contaminated forests". Forestry Department, FAO. Retrieved 18 June 2008. Deutsche Welle

resistance to it. It is also well-documented that mushrooms from contaminated forests accumulate radiocaesium (caesium-137) in the fungal sporocarps. Accumulation

tropical forests are the most species-rich biome, and tropical forests in the Americas are consistently more species rich than the wet forests in Africa

thirst levels. Water can be obtained from lakes and rivers, but most are contaminated causing side effects to the player. Polluted water can be boiled to purify

missing the town of Shkotovo-22, 1.5 km (0.93 mi) from the dock. The contaminated forest area was later surveyed as 2 km2 (490 acres) in a swath 3.5 km (2

mixture of normal distributions (Daemi et al. 2019); in particular, a contaminated normal distribution in which the majority of observations are from a

further from urban forests and green space, are particularly susceptible to the urban heat island effect. There are examples of urban forest inequity in cities

forest or stand of trees from land that is converted to non-forest use." (Wikipedia-Deforestation). Since the 1960s, nearly 50% of tropical forests have