Thomas W. Hodgkinson

Paradise regained: how the world’s wastelands are regenerating

Cal Flyn investigates regions that mankind has made uninhabitable and finds nature making a surprisingly vigorous comeback

Paradise regained: since 1954, one of the planet’s most impressive coral reefs has grown up in Bikini Atoll’s toxic waters. Credit: Getty Images.
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  • Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

    Cal Flyn

    William Collins, pp. 272, £16

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