The Chernobyl exclusion zone has long been one of Europe’s strangest wildlife refuges. After the 1986 nuclear disaster, people left large areas, and many animals returned to a landscape with little ...

After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — Scientists in Europe say the area around the ill-fated Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine has become a ...

Scientists are investigating whether radiation from the Chernobyl disaster caused genetic changes in dogs living near the ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...

Chernobyl is once again a global headline, but this time for its wildlife. Recent videos show stray dogs roaming the Chernobyl exclusion zone with bright blue fur. The footage, shared by animal rescue ...

Just because animals and plants are returning to the Chernobyl nuclear accident site, it does not mean there were no wildlife consequences from the ionizing radiation, especially in the areas that ...

On April 26, 2026, less than six months from now, the world will mark the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster (in the relatively short history of nuclear power), at Chernobyl, ...

Nuclear power plants are incredibly good at what they do, but when things go wrong, the results are disastrous. That’s why when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine had a reactor accident in ...

A lynx in Chernobyl, Ukraine, during the Russian occupation. A rare camera-trap study logged the effects of armed conflict on wild animals in real time. — Photos: Frankfurt Zoological Society, ...

In a time when countries are looking for any replacement for fossil fuels that are dwindling in supply and isolated to geopolitically unstable regions, nuclear power is an appealing alternative.