Chernobyl is often described as a wasteland frozen in time. For gray wolves, it has become something stranger: a human-e ...

On the walls of one of the most radioactive buildings on the planet, an organism survives where almost no form of life can ...

Decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, wildlife continues to live inside one of the most contaminated environments on Earth. The video examines deformed birds, altered insects, black tree frogs ...

On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster befell the Chernobyl, Ukraine Power Plant. Unlike the 2011 Fukushima, Japan nuclear crisis, the Chernobyl ...

Mutant wolves that roam the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could be key to helping humans fight the deadly disease, according to a study. The wild ...

The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These two traits do not differ, in fact, between specimens captured in areas with ...

For generations of dogs, home is the radioactive remains of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. In the first genetic analysis of these animals, scientists have discovered that dogs living in the power ...

At 1:23 in the morning on April 26, 1986, Unit 4 of the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station exploded, tearing the top off the reactor building and exposing the core to the Ukrainian wind. A few seconds ...

Ukraine's authorities hope that Chernobyl can be a monument not just to human error, but the ability to move on. In the 35 years since the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the nearby main thoroughfare ...

It will be 39 years since the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, but the aftermath still isn't over. The 1986 explosion is known as a devastating human tragedy, and it had an equally catastrophic impact ...