Almost 40 years ago, reactor number four exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Since then, the surrounding area has become, to the surprise of many, one of Europe’s largest nature reserves.

Nearly 40 years after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still reeling with the fallout. Until now, scientists haven't been able to determine if the children ...

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border when a series of steam explosions led to the meltdown ...

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the size of Yosemite National Park, and investigating how decades of radiation ...

Worms living near the world’s most well-known nuclear disaster zone appear to have developed new powers - immunity to radiation. In a new study, scientists visited Chernobyl to investigate nematodes, ...

Dogs living in and around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine are genetically distinct from dog populations living further away from the site of the nuclear accident. The results will be used ...

Scientists are studying the dogs living around the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine. “They are primarily the descendants of the animals that were left behind at the time of the evacuation during the ...

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has fascinated and haunted people all over the world over ever since that fateful Saturday, the 26th of April, in 1986. The attention has only gotten grabbier since ...

26 April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in the then Soviet-controlled country of Ukraine. In 1986, one of the power plant's reactors suffered an explosion, sending a radioactive ...