Dogs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are "genetically distinct" from those living farther away. Scientists finished the first genetic analysis of stray dogs at the nuclear disaster site and ...

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

It is the story of Chernobyl’s feral dogs, and it begins not with a whimper but with a nuclear boom a boom that, some four decades ago, transformed a thriving village into a zone of exclusion, and ...

When humans evacuated Chernobyl they were forced to leave their pets behind, and generations later hundreds of radiation-blasted dogs live on - very differently to other pooches Comments News ...

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky.

In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a place where radiation levels remain dangerously high decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, scientists have discovered an organism defying the odds. A black ...

A radiation warning sign is placed near the check-point ‘Maidan’ of the state radiation ecology reserve inside the 30 km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, some 370 ...

The Chernobyl site in northern Ukraine has been filled with deadly radiation since the 1986 nuclear meltdown, but a new study shows that microscopic worms at the site seem to be unaffected by the ...

1:41 Firefighters battle wildfire in Ukraine’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Radiation levels near the Chernobyl nuclear reactor have spiked to well above normal as two fires tear through the ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s nuclear regulatory agency says the radiation monitors around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the world’s worst meltdown in 1986, have stopped working.