Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...

Humans seem to be worse than nuclear radiation for wildlife. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone has ...

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, gray wolves in the exclusion zone have developed genetic traits potentially linked to cancer resilience. Researchers found thousands of genes behaving ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, wolves have flourished in the exclusion zone, with populations now seven times higher than before the accident. Their presence is subtly reshaping predator ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone, once a human evacuation area due to the 1986 nuclear disaster, now hosts a thriving ecosystem of wildlife. Przewalski's horses, introduced as an experiment, roam freely ...

Last week marked exactly forty years since Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant detonated at 1:23 a.m. on 26 April 1986, scattering radioactive caesium across Europe and permanently ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam ...