When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

are the longest-living animals on Earth, and their lifespans are surprising, if not unbelievable. Chernobyl is an area that has been deemed unsuitable for living. Nearly four decades after an ...

When humans evacuated Chernobyl they were forced to leave their pets behind, and generations later hundreds of radiation-blasted dogs live on - very differently to other pooches ...

it does seem like a rewilding of sorts has taken place in the decades that followed, allowing Chernobyl to become sort of a reservation for wildlife in the region.

A recent drone attack on Chernobyl is a reminder of the nuclear threat remaining there. One wrong move could trigger a catastrophe.

Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has radiation-eating fungi nearby! The radiotrophic fungi can be found growing on its reactor walls and inside the damaged reactor core.

Tele Vet Neil McIntosh looks at the effect of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 30 years ago on the animals living nearby.

Deserted by humans after the worst nuclear disaster in history, Chernobyl has now been reclaimed by a remarkable collection of wildlife and the descendants of pets that were left in the city.

The absence of farming, construction, and hunting gave local wildlife a strange opportunity to bounce back. Among the survivors, the dogs of Chernobyl found shelter in empty homes and old factories.