Nearly thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the region's animal population is thriving. Whatever the effect of radiation, the effects of human habitation seem to have been a lot more ...

At present, several projects are trying to resume human activities in the area. Tourism has flourished in Chernobyl, with more than 70,000 visitors in 2018. There are also plans for developing ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels ...

It will be 39 years since the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, but the aftermath still isn't over. The 1986 explosion is known as a devastating human tragedy, and it had an equally catastrophic ...

The Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011 and the worst nuclear accident ever, in Chernobyl, now Ukraine, in 1986, expanded the ...

Mutant wolves that roam the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could be key to helping humans fight the deadly disease, according to a study.

Chernobyl’s environment is singularly brutal ... providing insights about how animals and humans can live now and in the future in regions of the world under "continuous environmental assault ...

A SHOCK discovery in mutant black frogs could lead to humans returning to the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone. Scientists have hoped their findings would bring civilisation back to one ...

In 1986, a meltdown at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused the the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. Eastern tree frogs living near the site in ...

The destruction of uranium enrichment sites that support Iran's nuclear program would not likely have severe environmental ...

Mutant wolves roaming the deserted streets of Chernobyl appear to have developed resistance to cancer - raising hopes the findings can help scientists fight the disease in humans. A nuclear ...