When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...

Since the world's worst nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine in 1986, a 1,000 square mile area surrounding the site has been off-limits to humans. Over the years, wildlife has ...

A wild boar roams through the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine. Reuters Some 31 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident in Chernobyl, a wild boar with more than 10 ...

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Germán Orizaola was standing in the shadow of Chernobyl Power Plant’s reactor Number Four—the epicenter of the worst nuclear accident ever. It was the spring of 2016 and the giant dome of steel and ...

Reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion during a technical test on April 26, 1986. The accident in what was then the Soviet Union emitted more than 400 times ...

After the 1986 nuclear disaster, humans largely left the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. With less hunting, farming, and development, wildlife moved back in. Wolves in particular expanded their numbers.

On April 26, 2026, less than six months from now, the world will mark the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster (in the relatively short history of nuclear power), at Chernobyl, ...

Vladimir Krivenchik and his wife, Nina Skidan, are seen after hunting for a wolf near the village of Khrapkovo, Belarus. They live on the edge of the Chernobyl exclusion zone on the Belarus-Ukraine ...

Thirty-five years after the explosion and meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, I study how amphibians in the region have changed, physically and genetically. In 2016, I joined an ...

The Belarus region devastated by the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident is now teeming with elk, wild boar, deer and wolves Editor's note: The following essay is reprinted with permission ...

In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation in ways that appear to blunt their cancer risk. Far from collapsing, their ...