More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced a mass evacuation, the region remains a ghost town for humans.

Wild boar roaming the forests around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant now carry domestic pig DNA, a genetic legacy of the chaos that followed the 2011 nuclear disaster. When residents ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...

Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.

Scientists have just uncovered why populations of radioactive pig-boar hybrids have been flourishing in Fukushima. Since the ...

Hybridization between domestic animals and wildlife is a growing concern worldwide, particularly as feral pigs and wild boar ...

Radioactive pig-boar hybrids are thriving in Fukushima after nuclear disaster – now scientists know why - Domestic pig genes got diluted across generations but their rapid reproductive capacity persis ...

Over the last few decades, wild boar populations have increased in the urban areas of Barcelona and in other parts of Catalonia. This wild animal is an important reservoir of the hepatitis E virus, ...

Khanyar MLA Ali Muhammad Sagar submitted a calling attention notice to the assembly secretariat on the issue of wild boars roaming in the rural areas destroying crops in his constituency besides being ...