Rates of certain birth defects appear higher than normal in one of the Ukraine regions most affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, according to a new study.

The scientific debate is ongoing over whether congenital birth defects can be linked to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that happened 30 years ago this month. Physicians in the ...

The nuclear crisis in Japan has evoked memories of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Robert Baker, a biologist at Texas Tech, who co-directs the Chernobyl Project, has been studying mammals in ...

Chernobyl captures imaginations, brings underground tourism 35 years after nuclear disaster Nature has rebounded and it is now a home for rare species that had vanished.

New unpublished data reveals a slight rise in birth defects in post-nuclear-meltdown Japan. Jake Adelstein and Nathalie Stucky report on this exclusive data—and what Japan needs to do next to ...

When Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded on April 26, 1986, fire raged and radiation spewed into the atmosphere. Those responsible for mitigating the disaster in the hours and months ...

Radiation or relocation? A study of birds around Chernobyl suggests that nuclear fallout, rather than stress and deteriorating living conditions, may be responsible for human birth defects in the ...

HBO’s “Chernobyl” mini-series suggests that it is difficult to make an exciting movie about nuclear disasters without leading viewers to believe that they were much worse than they actually ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 left behind a wasteland of abandoned buildings, contaminated land, and a legacy of radiation that still lingers today. But amidst this radioactive zone, a ...

The Emmy-winning HBO mini-series “Chernobyl,” which is a dramatized account of the 1986 nuclear power plant disaster, has rekindled conversation about the accident, its subsequent cleanup and the long ...

The stray dogs of Chernobyl -- whose ancestors were exposed to powerful blasts of radiation from the 1986 plant meltdown -- might have cancer-resistant genes.