These birth defects might be linked with radiation from the Chernobyl disaster 30 years ago

Congenital heart defects, microcephaly, and more.

Some Dogs at Chernobyl Have Turned Blue

On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and serious mismanagement had caused the worst nuclear disa ...

40 years later: The changing future of nuclear energy after Chernobyl

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed ...
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Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is a testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

Across Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in a radioactive landscape larger ...

Through wars and pandemics, USC researcher's study of the dogs of Chernobyl continues 40 years after disaster

The disaster that struck at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, and the dogs and their offspring who survived, presented a unique research opportunity for a University of South ...

Inside Chernobyl's shadow community, 40 years after disaster

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 ...

Chernobyl, 40 years later: Ukrainians thought they had reduced the risks. Then Russia invaded

The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart.

PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

Dogs in Chernobyl may be undergoing rapid evolution, study finds

Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of the region's most unexpected survivors is a population of ...