A protective shield covering the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine can no longer provide its main containment function ...

Bizarre changes in animal behaviour and appearance have unfolded at the highly reactive Chernobyl site in the 40 years since ...

Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. On ...

In April of 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. To this day, it’s the ...

Ukraine said in February a Russian drone had struck the protective shelter housing the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, the site ...

MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Belarus has made significant efforts to tackle radioactive pollution following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, CIS First Deputy Secretary General Igor Petrishenko said during ...

Parents who were exposed to radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster did not pass genetic changes caused by radiation exposure on to their children, a new study has found. Parents ...

A new study has unraveled the mystery behind the lingering radioactivity in wild boars inhabiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone, even decades after the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident. In a recent ...

The U.N. passed the resolution on Thursday, with few countries—such as Russian ally Belarus, China and North Korea —voting ...

MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Belarus is willing to join efforts with all stakeholders to minimize the impact of the Chernobyl disaster on the basis of the principles of equal rights and mutual respect, ...

They’re not turning blue. But are the stray dogs roaming Chernobyl’s radioactive wasteland undergoing rapid evolutionary ...

User-Created Clip by Craig McAndrew April 26, 2017 2011-03-25T09:39:43-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/773/20110325094106002.jpgBiologist Alexey Yablokov on what ...