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

The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...

The frogs’ adaptations is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their ...

EXCLUSIVE: CNN and Nat Geo are teaming up for their latest international series, Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown.

The protective radiation shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—designed to contain radiation from Reactor 4, which was damaged during the 1986 explosion—could collapse if it’s struck again by ...

The mushrooms were at first thought to have come from Russia. — -- A shipment of imported Belarusian mushrooms contaminated with radioactivity was blocked from entering France this week, French ...

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, concerns are growing now that the conflict has reached Chernobyl. This week, Russian forces seized control of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...