After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, thousands of residents were forced to evacuate the Exclusion Zone, leaving behind pets that eventually formed free-roaming populations. Among them, dogs ...

Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in ...

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc committee will organize the 2016 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium. Its focus will be on commemorating the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor ...

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the ...

The streets of Britain were alive with music, cigarette smoke, and the chatter of bustling weekend nightlife when, more than 1,000 miles away, one of the most catastrophic accidents in history ...

12:00, Wed, Apr 15, 2026 Updated: 12:06, Wed, Apr 15, 2026 It all started with the push of a simple button. The Chernobyl disaster – the worst nuclear accident in history, which occurred 40 years ago ...

Alexander Rozhko is director of the Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology, in Gomel, the second-largest city in Belarus with a population of about 500,000. It is located ...

"I often wonder what my life could have looked like. My connection to Chernobyl remains, but it is only one part of who I am.