{"id":208558,"date":"2025-03-13T05:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/fungus-could-help-clean-up-chernobyl-site-by-drinking-radiation"},"modified":"2025-03-13T05:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:15:16","slug":"fungus-could-help-clean-up-chernobyl-site-by-drinking-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/fungus-could-help-clean-up-chernobyl-site-by-drinking-radiation","title":{"rendered":"Fungus could help clean up Chernobyl site by \u2018drinking radiation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fungus-could-help-clean-up-chernobyl-site-by-drinking-radiation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melanized fungi although dangerous to human biology actually are remarkable because they adapted to the radiation which could give more clues to how humans could evolve to survive radiation exposure long term.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/science-tech\/choanoflagellate-organism-discovered-lake-evolution\" target=\"_blank\">organism<\/a> thriving within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/science-tech\/mutated-wolves-chernobyl-cancer\" target=\"_self\">Chernobyl disaster<\/a> zone that is not only enduring some of the harshest living conditions imaginable, but potentially helping to improve them too.<\/p>\n<p>The fallout from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/science-tech\/chernobyl-elephant-foot\" target=\"_blank\">Chernobyl<\/a> nuclear disaster in 1986 is still fascinating the scientific community nearly 40 years on, with new developments emerging all the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine features a level of radiation that is six times the legal limit of human exposure for workers at 11.28 millirem \u2013 but there is still a living organism that has adapted to live and thrive there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanized fungi although dangerous to human biology actually are remarkable because they adapted to the radiation which could give more clues to how humans could evolve to survive radiation exposure long term. There\u2019s an organism thriving within the Chernobyl disaster zone that is not only enduring some of the harshest living conditions imaginable, but potentially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}