When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened on April 26, 1986, the region became one of the most heavily contaminated areas on the planet. A 1,000-square-mile area surrounding the doomed nuclear ...

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

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 ...

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked ...

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

After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the surrounding region became one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans left—but wildlife stayed. Scientists have since documented deformities, genetic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: 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 ...