Nature Is More Powerful Than Our Own Toxins

Gos weha: I think that nature has proven itself to be more powerful than our most potent toxins. Turnoble is arguably the most ntoxic, radioactive place on the planet. And yet over these 30 years, the voles that live within that radioactive soil of tenoble have been thriving. How is it possible that those animals are surviving in that higher radioactive environment? Probably the microbium, again, is the answer. We now know that there's many strains of pseudamonus species bacteria that are expert at digesting things like radioactive uranium and plutonium. Ar so is just fascinating in o story of getting outside, always the right answer, getting as close to nature

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