Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the area around Chernobyl remains largely uninhabited by people. But it is no longer empty. Following the 1986 explosion, a 2,600 sq km exclusion ...

The explosion of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986 left a large area around the plant uninhabitable by humans because of lingering nuclear radiation. However, animals, like feral dogs, have continued to ...

PARISHEV, Ukraine — Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stray dogs hang out near an abandoned, partially-completed cooling tower at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.Sean Gallup/Getty ...

In March, scientists released the first-ever research detailing the genetic changes in feral dogs living around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The dogs, descendants of pets left behind after the ...

Radioactive landscape too dangerous for human life now boasts some of the world's wildest horses, wolves and Eurasian lynx ...

A huge forest fire close to Chernobyl nuclear plant has been put out, according to authorities in Ukraine on Tuesday (April 14). They said hundreds of emergency workers had used planes and helicopters ...

Firefighters worked across the weekend to tackle smouldering roof insulation in the giant protective shelter which covers Chernobyl's unit 4 following the drone strike on Friday. Radiation levels in ...

A huge armada of vehicles were used to clean-up the radioactive aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster 40 years ago. Many of them still lie rusting inside the exclusion zone. In the early hours of ...