Dead Trees and Tim Mousseau

Tim Mousseau: But for all the impacts he has seen in his more than 30 field trips to Ukraine since 1991, none was so eerie as his close-up encounter with the ghost forest of dead trees that lingers to this day inside the radioactive no-go zone north of Kyiv, according to The Star. You squeezed them and they were hard . Trees that died that many years ago, they should be mostly sawdust. They shouldnt exist. But they do and Very few people understand the radioactive afterglow of Chernobyl as well as Canadian scientist Tim Mousseau, who has dedicated 15 years to unravelling the ecological and evolutionary consequences of the worlds worst nuclear catastrophe. We were trudging through the Red Forest, the area most heavily contaminated. And we noticed that many of these trees trees that were killed in the initial blast in 1986 were sitting there relatively intact, says Mousseau. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.