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 ...

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

Decades after the Chernobyl disaster, stray dogs in the area have mutated to survive the lethal levels of radiation, a groundbreaking study shows. Dubbed 'radiation hounds,' these canines have ...

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

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked to reduced cancer risk, according to research described by Princeton ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...