In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. On ...

The impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 was felt not only in Soviet Ukraine, but also in parts of Belarus and western Russia. The town of Zlynka in Russia's Bryansk region is still living ...

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(NEW YORK) — Guides who offer tours of Chernobyl have warned that wildfires close to the former nuclear power station are out of control and have accused Ukrainian authorities of concealing the scale ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine– Radiation monitors inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone spiked on Thursday as Russian troops invaded Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian parliament and the International Atomic Energy ...

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It's well known that too much exposure to radiation is hazardous to living organisms like humans, but nudging along evolution ...

A mountainous area in Germany is now home to a somewhat unusual phenomenon: wild boars that have been turned dangerously radioactive by atomic bomb fallout from more than six decades ago. These ...

Ukrainian authorities said Thursday that Russian forces have captured the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the scene of a 1986 meltdown that sent a radioactive cloud over parts of Europe and ...

FILE - A shelter construction covers the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, April 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File) FILE - A shelter construction covers ...