Food security

HUMOR: The glowing threat of radioactive pigs

Six years after an earthquake and subsequent tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, experts who will probably never live anywhere near it say radiation is now low enough that former residents can safely return home. The problem is, with no humans around, wild boars in the area have bred like rabbits and the aggressive—and potentially radioactive— creatures freely roam the abandoned towns.

“It is not really clear now which is the master of the town, people or wild boars,” Tamotsu Baba, mayor of Namie, told Reuters this month. “If we don’t get rid of them and turn this into a human-led town, the situation will get even wilder and uninhabitable.”