Some Dogs at Chernobyl Have Turned Blue

On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and serious mismanagement had caused the worst nuclear disa ...

These birth defects might be linked with radiation from the Chernobyl disaster 30 years ago

Congenital heart defects, microcephaly, and more.

40 years later: The changing future of nuclear energy after Chernobyl

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed ...

Inside Chernobyl's shadow community, 40 years after disaster

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...
The Press Democrat

Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is a testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

Across Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in a radioactive landscape larger ...

Chernobyl, 40 years later: Ukrainians thought they had reduced the risks. Then Russia invaded

The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart.

Nuclear Fears Hang Heavy Over Ukraine on Chernobyl Anniversary

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl continues to haunt Ukraine, heightened by attacks hitting the country's nuclear plants.

PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...
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Dogs in Chernobyl may be undergoing rapid evolution, study finds

Chernobyl is often presented as evidence that wildlife can flourish in radioactive landscapes.