Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield ...

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, concerns are growing now that the conflict has reached Chernobyl. This week, Russian forces seized control of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...

Experts fear military activity could cause radioactive material to spread. As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, concerns are growing now that the conflict has reached Chernobyl. This week, ...

A few years ago I had a friend who told me they were going to visit Chernobyl, arguably the place on earth most associated with nuclear radiation. The full and tragic story of the Chernobyl Nuclear ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

Are the dogs of Chernobyl evolving right in front of us? That's a question some scientists have been asking in new research that has been keeping tabs on the wild animals roaming around the Chernobyl ...

Amid the remnants of Chernobyl’s ghost villages, a small herd of stocky horses emerged from the woods—an unexpected encounter that left a nonprofit stunned to see "critically endangered" species ...