The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...

A new study has unraveled the mystery behind the lingering radioactivity in wild boars inhabiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone, even decades after the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident. In a recent ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 39 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected many countries across Europe one way or another but ...

HBO and Sky UK’s miniseries Chernobyl is not the first attempt to depict the namesake nuclear disaster, but it is the most convincing one, distilling thorough research into an elaborate story. A major ...

Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. On ...

After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, scientists wondered whether the dogs living in the area are undergoing rapid evolution, ...

Russian drone strikes damaged a structure containing remains from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine - one of the largest ...

Central Asia's desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth's mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is due to the "quiet Chernobyl" environmental disaster that struck the ...