A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...

1986 rain carried Chernobyl caesium to Bala, prompting sheep bans and local cancer fears despite low doses. I was in the room with Trump as the shots rang out New '90-day' rule for NatWest, HSBC, ...

Those living in the lush green mountains of Gwynedd, Wales, have a word for the chill winds that sweep from the East - Gwynt traed y meirw, which translates as "wind from the feet of the dead". So ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident. In ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident caused the largest ever release of radioactive material into the ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that ...

The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant is one of the most radioactive sites in the world. Yet scientists regularly carry out research there to analyse the fallout from the 26 April, ...

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) The Chernobyl reactor accident on April 26, 1986 affected the cantons of Ticino, St. Gallen and Thurgau via rainfall in Switzerland. In Ticino, highly radioactive caesium ...

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again. Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor ...