A team of researchers in France are building on fundamental experimental research undertaken in the Ukrainian Chornobyl ...

Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, something weird—but wonderful—is happening inside the Chernobyl ...

The 2025 Tribeca Film Festival in New York included a world premiere of War Through the Eyes of Animals (also known as ...

The April 1986 disaster at Chernobyl’s nuclear powerstation is remembered as one of the darkest moments of Ukrainian history, but it is also inspiring expressions of art, folklore, poetry and humor.

On April 26, 1896, the industrial city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine was changed forever. Located just 16.5 km from the city ...

T he Chernobyl disaster happened on April 26, 1986. The city of Pripyat was evacuated, but animals remained in the area. Over ...

Radiation-induced mutations may not be the reason for the genetic differences between dog populations living near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to a new study. The study, published ...

This research is among the first to closely examine how chronic, low-level radiation affects the physiology of animals in this area.

Nearly three decades since the disaster and it seems the birds living in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl are adapting to long-term radiation exposure. And some of them aren’t even just ...

A handful of research papers indicate that some animals living in the CEZ may be suffering the consequences of radiation exposure. The full impacts of the Chernobyl disaster on wildlife may never ...