Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With humans largely out of the picture, wildlife has returned to the once-settled Chernobyl area. Last year, researchers found ...

Inside the ruined shell of reactor 4 at Chernobyl, where gamma radiation still spikes far above normal background levels, a strange life form has quietly taken hold. Thick, dark mats of fungus cling ...

Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a number of different fungi, has been growing toward radioactive particles, and surviving on ionizing radiation, at the Chernobyl ...