The Soviet Duga radar system, designed to detect missile launches from geopolitical rivals, disrupted global communication ...

Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found. Reading time 3 minutes The most expensive nuclear disaster in human history ...

Members of the Chernobyl nuclear plant staff carry candles at a memorial dedicated to firefighters and workers who died after the 1986 nuclear disaster, during a night commemorative service to mark ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident. In ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable future, it will be an army-controlled security belt. A Ukrainian soldier taking ...

The remains of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant can be seen last year from the upper floors of the Polissya Hotel in Pripyat, which was used by officials and specialists during the response to the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As Ukrainians mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, last year’s Russian drone attack ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, ...

In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...