After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, humans abandoned the exclusion zone — but nature never left. The transcript follows the animals now living in one of the most contaminated places on Earth: dogs ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone, sealed off to humans for four decades, supports more wildlife now than any formally protected nature area in northern Ukraine, according to a new study. The ...

Radiation affects air, soil, and water differently, and its behavior can even vary depending on the type of plant.

On April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Forty years later, the ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 is widely believed to have caused the death of at least 4,000 people, with a further untold number of children born with abnormalities. The explosion forced the ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...