After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, humans abandoned the exclusion zone — but nature never left. The transcript follows the animals now living in one of the most contaminated places on Earth: dogs ...

Radiation affects air, soil, and water differently, and its behavior can even vary depending on the type of plant.

35 years after the worst nuclear disaster in history, parts of Chernobyl are still too radioactive for people to go to.

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, used with permission) The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans ...

In 1986, when both countries were republics of the Soviet Union, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — 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, sand-colored ...

The radioactive region around Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history, has become an ...

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Failure to repair the protective structure around the nuclear site could unleash 'highly radioactive dust' that 'does not recognise borders', experts warn. A potential collapse of the internal ...

Kyiv is calling for an international investigation after a drone allegedly struck a spent nuclear fuel facility.