Once a vibrant, bustling city built to house the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Prypiat now lies desolate, a shadow of its former self. Abandoned nearly overnight in 1986 following ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced ...

On April 26, 1896, the industrial city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine was changed forever. Located just 16.5 km from the city ...

The April 1986 disaster at Chernobyl’s nuclear powerstation is remembered as one of the darkest moments of Ukrainian history, ...

With the end of the 12 day war, the question of regime change in Iran remains central. There are many scenarios, highlighting different factors and views. Analysts contrast the sweeping 1979 ...

Slavutych was the city built 45 kilometres east of Chernobyl to house its workers evacuated from Pripyat which was three kilometres from the ... "We must give this territory of Ukraine a new lease of ...

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Nearly four decades later, the ...