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Scientists discovered why Germany’s wild boar are radioactive

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  1. Wish_for_a_dragon
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    Likely as many of you I have a distaste for clickbait article titles. I came across this story in the Washington Post, which didn’t hand any indication of the why in the title, so I read through...

    Likely as many of you I have a distaste for clickbait article titles. I came across this story in the Washington Post, which didn’t hand any indication of the why in the title, so I read through and looked for the source. Well, guess what?

    Original article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.3c03565#

    The whole thing is worth a read, especially as it explains that it’s actually nuclear weapons testing from the 1960s that’s the cause.

    It’s important to note that we’ll likely see further contamination among the wild boar population in Germany.

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