How Chernobyl exclusion zone was cut off from world to become ‘giant roach motel’… & the ghost residents who never left

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...

Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is a testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in ...

Chernobyl's exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity—but it faces new threats from Russia's invasion

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The ...

Forty years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl

In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near ...
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The Chernobyl Miracle: How Mutant Wolves Developed a Biological Shield Against Cancer

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers studying gray wolf populations near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site discovered a genetic evolution that may be ...
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Why Bavaria’s Boars Are More Radioactive Than Chernobyl’s Wolves

Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some cases, they carry higher levels of radioactive contamination than wolves living near the Chernobyl ...

Darker frogs, resilient wolves, and radiation-eating fungi: The surprising wildlife thriving in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Decades after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone is transforming from a wasteland into a thriving wildlife sanctuary. The absence of human activity has allowed wolves, bears, bison, and rare ...

Chernobyl is too radioactive for humans – but wild animals are thriving like never before

Wolves now prowl the vast no-man’s-land spanning Ukraine and Belarus, and brown bears have returned after more than a century ...
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The Wild Horses of Chernobyl: Nature's Resilient Return

The Chernobyl exclusion zone, once a human evacuation area due to the 1986 nuclear disaster, now hosts a thriving ecosystem ...
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Chernobyl’s wildlife thrives despite lingering radiation risks

Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, Chernobyl’s exclusion zone has transformed into an accidental wildlife refuge, with species from wolves to rare Przewalski’s horses flourishing in the ...

'At Chernobyl, everything seemed to be cracking and melting inside': A former Ukrainian 'liquidator' recounts the disaster 40 years later

Halyna Kharshenko went to work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, unaware of the scale and severity of ...
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Why Bavaria’s Boars Are More Radioactive Than Chernobyl’s Wolves

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Analyzing wild boar samples was required to determine why radioactivity levels are not decreasing. Wild boars roaming the forests ...