Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...

These 20 pictures capture the aftermath of the infamous 1986 Chernobyl incident—effects that are, in some cases, still felt ...

Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine ...

They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t ...

A wolf trots through a stand of Scots pine less than 10 miles from the entombed Chernobyl reactor, its image frozen by a ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone, once a human evacuation area due to the 1986 nuclear disaster, now hosts a thriving ecosystem ...

Ukraine's nuclear ghosts were raised again on Friday after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the plant at Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident. The ...

Tiny worms that live in the highly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone were found to be immune to radiation — which scientists hope could provide clues about why some humans develop cancer, while ...

Chernobyl wolves are growing resistant to cancer despite their high radiation exposure. The wolves are exposed to six times the legal safety limit of radiation for humans. Decades after the nuclear ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

Tony Blair’s think tank has warned the development of nuclear power is suffering from an unjustified perception of risk in the wake of two major disasters, urging the UK to take advantage of a “new ...

AP photographer Efrem Lukatsky reflects on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, documenting its lasting impacts on the environment ...