The Ukrainian town of Pripyat has been left to decay for nearly four decades after it was abandoned overnight after the 1986 ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

The hundreds of dogs that live in Chernobyl's exclusion zone have caught the attention of researchers interested in the ...

While dogs are often thought to be our best friends, and we’ve been living alongside them for thousands of years, we’re still ...

A black fungus that's growing in Chernobyl's infamous No. 4 nuclear reactor is absorbing some of its radiation as part of its ...

5 youths give chase after a man who has stolen 8 million rubles from them The man reveals on his video blog his intention to travel to Chernobyl ...

The explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine on April 26, 1986 remains the worst nuclear disaster in human history. It left a 30-kilometer ...

open image in gallery Photograph shows a dog in the ghost town of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (AFP via Getty) Scientists have been studying dog populations near the nuclear ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 was a pivotal ... The abandoned city of Pripyat in modern day Ukraine serves as a haunting monument which regularly features as a setting in video games.

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 ...