The radioactive region around Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history, has become an ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

Russian troops who seized Chernobyl will soon suffer the effects of radiation exposure after digging trenches in the nuclear zone, the head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The radioactive fallout of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster ...

The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These two traits do not differ, in fact, between specimens captured in areas with ...

Nearly four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl remains one of the most mysterious places on Earth. The abandoned cities, empty schools, and silent forests have turned the ...

You’d think an irradiated wasteland would be a poor place to make a home, but some animals beg to differ. Since the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown 37 years ago, both wild animals and free-roaming ...

Chernobyl, which is currently a town in the north of Ukraine, is infamous for the largest nuclear disaster in history when the town's nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown on April 26, 1986. A ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

When Russian troops seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last year, following the invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky called it “a declaration of war” against Europe.

After the disaster at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, local residents were forced to permanently evacuate, leaving behind their homes and, in some cases, their pets. Concerned ...