Bizarre changes in animal behaviour and appearance have unfolded at the highly reactive Chernobyl site in the 40 years since the disaster - including 'evolving' dogs and cancer-resistant wolves ...

Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. On ...

Parents who were exposed to radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster did not pass genetic changes caused by radiation exposure on to their children, a new study has found. Parents ...

In April of 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. To this day, it’s the ...

Temporary repairs are planned in 2026 to pave the way for permanent restoration, the United Nations agency said.

A shield covering the destroyed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is no longer blocking radiation from the disaster site in Ukraine, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has said. Ukraine said in February ...

A Russian drone has struck the vast protective shell covering the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine said on Friday. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...

A new study has unraveled the mystery behind the lingering radioactivity in wild boars inhabiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone, even decades after the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident. In a recent ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Belarus is willing to join efforts with all stakeholders to minimize the impact of the Chernobyl disaster on the basis of the principles of equal rights and mutual respect, ...

The U.N. passed the resolution on Thursday, with few countries—such as Russian ally Belarus, China and North Korea —voting ...