Human activities have significantly impacted Earth, leading to environmental disasters like the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone and the Great Pacific Garbage ...

The Wolves of Chernobyl Reveal Human Potential Scientists discovered something impossible in Chernobyl's radioactive ruins - life is thriving where nothing should survive. Animals aren't just living ...

Now this high school graduate is rewriting his story and taking on new challenges.

Today, they’re known as Chernobyl dogs. These creatures were left behind to fend for themselves in the radioactive ruins. They have built a resilient life among the abandoned buildings that ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

In 1986, a meltdown at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused ... The region is called a 'dead zone' due to the extensive radiation which persists. However, the proliferation of wildlife in ...

Once satisfied with his life pursuit, Yitz traveled to the ... (See photos taken on illegal visits to Chernobyl's dead zone.) A visitor to the abandoned Chernobyl synagogue pauses for a photo.

Nearly 40 years ago, the world's worst nuclear disaster turned the Ukrainian city of Pripyat and its nearby power plant, Chernobyl, into a radioactive hot zone – and surprisingly, decades later, a ...

Since the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown ... 1,000 square mile zone surrounding the plant. It’s a revealing paradox of modern life: A place too corrosive for humans to live is the rare place animals ...

defying government prohibitions and illegally entering the highly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, or “Dead Zone”—for fun. This group is monitored and pursued by the police and not fond ...

Scientists have previously said, due to the huge amount of contamination in the Chernobyl area, the exclusion zone will not be habitable ... that's where their life was, and they did not want ...