The Ukrainian town of Pripyat has been left to decay for nearly four decades after it was abandoned overnight after the 1986 ...

Mayya Gil had been walking across Cropsey Avenue in front of her apartment in Bensonhurst near 24th Avenue around 12:40 p.m.

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been travelling regularly to the city since 2002. He is now publishing his second book on life after the 1986 accident at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant, and regr ...

Dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear plant aren’t radioactive mutants—but their genetic differences reveal a surprising story.

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster since World War II decimated Chernobyl in the Soviet Union. Nearly 40 years ...

A 95-year-old woman, who survived some of history's most catastrophic events, died last week after she was hit by a vehicle ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ ... separate from the city population,” she said. “Investigating that question is an important next step that we are now working on.” ...

In a study published last year, researchers identified stark genetic differences between the Exclusion Zone’s feral dogs and dogs living barely 10 miles away in Chernobyl City. These included ... the ...

Now, a new study published nearly two years later confidently ... To establish a baseline for comparison, the team compared the genome of Chernobyl City dogs located 10 miles from the CEZ to dogs ...