In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...

It is thought that as many as five million people were exposed to some sort of health hazard following the Chernobyl disaster ...

The radioactive fallout of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster has resulted in the rapid evolution of species nearby. "Skin coloration was darker in localities closest to areas with high ...

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all ...

As 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Chernobyl, commemorating it as a historical aberration allows Europe to move on without ...

The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

A man walks past a shelter covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 2021. Russian forces have seized control of the facility. Efrem Lukatsky Associated ...

A viral photograph on Reddit claimed to show one of the first photographs taken at Chernobyl after the explosion of the nuclear reactor in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. The post claimed it was shot 14 ...