On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster in history occurred after a botched safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine in what was then the Soviet Union. The accident caused ...

A new study found that wolves, bears, lynx, moose, and wild horses are thriving within Chernobyl’s exclusion zone.

Radioactive landscape too dangerous for human life now boasts some of the world's wildest horses, wolves and Eurasian lynx ...

It was the fall of 1986, some six months after the catastrophic Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion, and a group of soldiers suited up to enter the radiation-riddled site. Their task: Clean ...

Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in ...

Russian forces have vacated the area surrounding Chernobyl, but Ukrainian officials are now sounding the alarm that troops were likely exposed to high amounts of radiation after they intentionally ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...

“One of the atomic reactors has been damaged,” a Radio Moscow broadcast announced about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 28, 1986—nearly three days after the accident. “Measures are being ...

IN THE SMALL hours of February 24th 2022, Valentyn Heiko received a phone call at work. Gunfire could be heard at Vilcha, less than 50km away: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was under way. “We’re ...

Russian soldiers who captured the Chernobyl nuclear site in the early stages of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February may have taken home radioactive “souvenirs.” Ukraine’s state nuclear ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

The sudden ear-piercing beep of a radiation meter fills the room as a Ukrainian soldier walks in. This is where Russian soldiers were living at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and radiation levels ...