On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...
The silent, snow-dusted ruins of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine are far from dead. While humans fled the radioactive fallout of the 1986 nuclear disaster, nature staged a remarkable takeover.
After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...
Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.
In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...
When the Chernobyl power plant explosion scattered ionizing radiation all over Europe, the damage it dealt lasted much longer than the initial blast. Researchers sequenced the genomes of Chernobyl ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam ...