The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has quickly become a 1,000 square-mile science experiment, as experts use the highly irradiated zone as a chance to understand animal biology placed under those ...

Wolves in Chernobyl radioactivity region running among abandoned hoses with cold winter and deep snow© wildlife_outdoor/Shutterstock.com When the Chernobyl nuclear ...

Chernobyl is often described as a ghost zone, but nature never really left. Wolves, frogs, birds, insects, dogs, and forests stayed behind, and radiation kept shaping their lives long after the humans ...

The silent, snow-dusted ruins of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine are far from dead. While humans fled the radioactive fallout of the 1986 nuclear disaster, nature staged a remarkable takeover.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Analyzing wild boar samples was required to determine why radioactivity levels are not decreasing. Wild boars roaming the forests ...

Forty years ago, the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl sent plumes of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Now, New Scientist has gained exclusive access to learn how vital work to decontaminate t ...

ORF Universum Nature is gearing up to release Radioactive Wolves—Chernobyl’s Forbidden Wilderness, a new and updated edition of the documentary Radioactive Wolves.

PARISHEV, Ukraine — Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...