(WJW) – A new study has found worms collected in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have a special type of superpower. The 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant transformed the area around it ...

Radiation has affected animals living near the site of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster far more than was previously thought, says a new study. The study, which appears in the Royal Society ...

It was the fall of 1986, some six months after the catastrophic Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion, and a group of soldiers suited up to enter the radiation-riddled site. Their task: Clean ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone has become a magnet for lurid images that seem to show nature warped by radiation, from misshapen livestock to feral dogs with unnaturally bright fur. Terrifying photos of ...

Chernobyl is often described as a ghost zone, but nature never really left. Wolves, frogs, birds, insects, dogs, and forests stayed behind, and radiation kept shaping their lives long after the humans ...