The site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster has become a haven for large wild mammals living in the region, scientists say. On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power pla ...

Forty years after the world’s worst nuclear accident forced more than 100,000 people from their homes, the forests around the Chernobyl reactor are teeming with life that was never supposed to return.

On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...

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CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world's wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski's horses — stocky, ...

Germán Orizaola was standing in the shadow of Chernobyl Power Plant’s reactor Number Four—the epicenter of the worst nuclear accident ever. It was the spring of 2016 and the giant dome of steel and ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, wolves have flourished in the exclusion zone, with populations now seven times higher than before the accident. Their presence is subtly reshaping predator ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant. "Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa!" In the middle of the night, a noise from the ...