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

When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster ...

On this day, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian republic of the Soviet Union, failed. The resulting meltdown of the reactor core and explosions killed 28 people ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the site remains too dangerous for humans – but wildlife has moved ...

In April 1986, the Chernobyl disaster led to a thriving ecosystem of animals, including feral dogs. A 2023 study revealed distinct genetic differences in Chernobyl's dogs, hinting at possible ...

A 2,600km² exclusion zone was established following the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, which released a radioactive cloud across Europe and led to the evacuation of ...

A group of scientists headed by Vladislav Gurzhiy, Associate Professor of the Department of Crystallography at St. Petersburg State University, experimentally investigated the evolution of Chernobyl ...

Radioactivity is one of humanity’s deepest existential fears, perhaps because unlike most existential threats, it is invisible. Vast swathes of the region around Chernobyl and Fukushima, site of the ...

Decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster forced mass evacuations, the exclusion zone has transformed into an unlikely wildlife sanctuary. Species such as wolves, brown bears, and reintroduced ...