Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, a population of stray dogs continues to survive among radioactive ...

More than 35 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant – somehow still able to find food, breed and ...

Reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion during a technical test on April 26, 1986. The accident in what was then the Soviet Union emitted more than 400 times ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly known as Chernobyl) nuclear plant, thousands of animals now roam freely through ...

KYIV, April 26 (Reuters) - The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl nuclear plant was dangerous and covered up emergencies there before the 1986 disaster, the Ukrainian authorities said as they released ...

It's well known that too much exposure to radiation is hazardous to living organisms like humans, but nudging along evolution ...

Germán Orizaola receives funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "Ramón y Cajal" Programme (RyC-2016-20656), the British Ecological Society (SR20-1169) and the Spanish ...

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a New Safe Confinement structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Chernobyl LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters ...

May 1 was one of the biggest holidays in the Soviet calendar—the worker's festival. In 1986, celebrations across the Soviet Union were overshadowed by what had happened just days before: the Chernobyl ...

360° Video: Step inside the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster left it uninhabitable. It’s the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, responsible for ...

LVIV, Ukraine, March 11 (Reuters) - Ukraine's state nuclear power regulator said on Friday the electricity supply to the Chernobyl nuclear power station had not yet been restored, despite Russia's ...