"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...

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Ukrainians gathered to honour those who died from the accident, as well as the hundreds of thousands who cleaned up after the disaster, exposing themselves to high levels of radiation. As Ukraine ...

Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found. Reading time 3 minutes The most expensive nuclear disaster in human history ...

Forty years after the world's worst civilian nuclear accident, a thriving wildlife sanctuary has emerged in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), with wolves, foxes, lynx, elk, wild boar, brown bears ...

The remains of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant can be seen last year from the upper floors of the Polissya Hotel in Pripyat, which was used by officials and specialists during the response to the ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident. In ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As Ukrainians mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, last year’s Russian drone attack ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history. It comes four years into the ...