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 ...

Scientists from Ukraine and the United Kingdom have confirmed that land in Chernobyl can be cultivated again, including for ...

A fifteen-meter-wide hole in the roof of reactor number 4, the exact point of the 1986 explosion. Flames visible from ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency has outlined the scale of the damage caused by a drone strike and subsequent fires to ...

When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

When humans evacuated Chernobyl they were forced to leave their pets behind, and generations later hundreds of radiation-blasted dogs live on - very differently to other pooches ...

“Since 1986, there has been a lot of misinformation about radiation risks from Chernobyl, which has negatively impacted on people still living in abandoned areas,” study lead author Jim Smith ...

Thousands of hectares of Chernobyl-affected farmland, long deemed too dangerous for cultivation in northern Ukraine can ...

They're also revealing insights into the aftermath of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant ... the researchers identified genes that help protect against the effects of radiation.

On the 39th anniversary of the nuclear accident in Ukraine, an Athletic writer recalls a visit to the nearby home of FC ...

The one HBO and Max show you should watch this April is a powerful dramatization of a traumatic event that happened nearly 40 years ago ...