When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...

The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...

Just because animals and plants are returning to the Chernobyl nuclear accident site, it does not mean there were no wildlife consequences from the ionizing radiation, especially in the areas that ...

PARISHEV, Ukraine -- Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the ...

Wild boar run past abandoned farm houses near the site of the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. (Valeriy Yurko photo) One might think a fire and explosion at a nuclear power plant might ...

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 ...

Wolves in Chernobyl’s radiation zone appear to have developed a resistance to cancer after being exposed to high levels of radiation in the wake of the nuclear disaster 35 years ago, according to a ...

BABCHIN, Belarus (Reuters) - We venture out at dawn from a dilapidated shack nestled in a forest to see the animals, although rising early is not always necessary. Still inhospitable to humans, the ...

Vasily Fedosenko is a Reuters photographer based in the Belarussian capital, Minsk. Born in 1960 in the provincial town of Bobruisk, he initially trained as an engineer but late in the Soviet era ...