Russia could trigger a new nuclear disaster in Ukraine, four decades after the Chernobyl catastrophe of 1986, experts have cautioned. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has issued an urgent ...

A frozen world, sealed in time. Earth, as it was known, changed on April 26, 1986, at 1.23am, when the night split open. Inside Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a routine safety ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. From a 25-year-old with his finger on the wrong button to a grizzled Communist Party apparatchik who ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

Chernobyl, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years ago Sunday, more than 300,000 people fled the towns surrounding the destroyed Unit 4 reactor that spewed lethal radiation. In 2019, ...

In the new research, Dillon and team analyzed whole-genome sequence data collected from 106 dogs between 2018 and 2019, including animals from the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and from Chornobyl City ...

Although the landscape around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant may seem apocalyptic, dog packs have managed to inhabit it.

Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Nobel Prize–winning author Svetlana Alexievich says Belarus is still a "laboratory" in which the long-term effects of the massive radiation leak ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. With Chernobyl's nuclear radiation raining down, Communist party officials dithered, delayed and hid the ...

Eastern tree frogs sampled near the Chernobyl exclusion zone had 43.6% darker skin than frogs from less-contaminated areas.

In the initial aftermath of the nuclear power plant explosion, authorities told the bride's mother "not to panic" and that "all planned events in the city of Pripyat should go ahead" Getty A couple ...