After the 1986 nuclear disaster, humans largely left the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. With less hunting, farming, and development, wildlife moved back in. Wolves in particular expanded their numbers.

When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) ...

Roaming in the eerie air of Chernobyl, these wolves are quietly evolving resistance to a radiation which is otherwise toxic ...

Nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster, gray wolves in the Exclusion Zone are not just surviving radiation, they’re ...

The mutant wolves of Chernobyl have genetically evolved enough to be protected against cancer.

Scientists find that Chernobyl's grey wolves have evolved cancer-resilient genomes despite high radiation levels. This ...

In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation ...

Under the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station in Japan, something strange has been observed. The waters here are highly radioactive and so not suitable for any form of life. But scientists have observed ...

Analyzing wild boar samples was required to determine why radioactivity levels are not decreasing. Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some ...

Ionizing radiation apparently didn’t prevent some types of bacteria from breeding in the water, but astonishingly, they are ...

Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, University of Montana But in contrast to these common caricatures, surveys of public opinion consistently show that most people around the ...