When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

When reactor number four exploded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, the evacuation orders that cleared out nearby towns did not extend to every living thing. Many pets were left behind, ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly known as Chernobyl) nuclear plant, thousands of animals now roam freely through ...

After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the surrounding region became one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans left—but wildlife stayed. Scientists have since documented deformities, genetic ...