PARISHEV, Ukraine–Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the ...

Today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, bisons, wolves, lynxes, Przewalski horses, and more ...

Cataracts, small brains, and DNA damage — Chernobyl's wildlife 33 years after the meltdown 'Almost everything we've looked at ends up showing some consequence in the more radioactive areas' ...

The colour of Chernobyl tree frogs After detecting the first black frogs in 2016, we decided to study the role of melanin colouration in Chernobyl wildlife. Between 2017 and 2019 we examined in ...

On April 26, 1985 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine exploded. The next day over 116,000 people evacuated the surrounded villages. But what happe… ...

Watch Pop Mech editors Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick explore the strange case of the Chernobyl dogs, who descend from those canines abandoned during the April 26, 1986 evacuation.