It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power ...
A wolf trots through a stand of Scots pine less than 10 miles from the entombed Chernobyl reactor, its image frozen by a motion-activated camera bolted to a tree. The photograph, part of a publicly ...
"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, wildlife has returned in large numbers—suggesting that the absence of humans may ...
Wolves now prowl the vast no-man’s-land spanning Ukraine and Belarus, and brown bears have returned after more than a century ...
A 2,600km² exclusion zone was established following the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, which released a radioactive cloud across Europe and led to the evacuation of ...
Humans seem to be worse than nuclear radiation for wildlife. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone has ...
It is estimated that 22,000 hectares were burned during the Russian invasion of Chernobyl. Several Przewalski’s horses have died after stepping on landmines within the exclusion zone. The full impact ...
FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the world, crawling with cockroaches and patrolled by radioactive mutant ...