Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of the region's most unexpected survivors is a population of ...
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Chernobyl, 40 years on: How wildlife returned to one of the most toxic places on Earth
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, wildlife has returned in large numbers—suggesting that the absence of humans may ...
A 2,600km² exclusion zone was established following the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, which released a radioactive cloud across Europe and led to the evacuation of ...
Wolves now prowl the vast no-man’s-land spanning Ukraine and Belarus, and brown bears have returned after more than a century ...
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Chernobyl’s wildlife: the real story isn’t the presence of radiation – it’s the absence of humans
They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t actually show any genetic differences were caused by radiation. The idea of ...
FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...
The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...
A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...
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