Chernobyl is often described as a wasteland frozen in time. For gray wolves, it has become something stranger: a human-e ...

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A nuclear engineer takes a closer look at what remains of Chernobyl’s infamous Elephant’s Foot and what has changed since it ...

Russia’s occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine is putting research projects there in limbo, said University of Georgia scientist James Beasley. Russian troops moved across the ...

In 2020, Svitlana Kudrenko, then a doctoral student in nature conservation, set out to study the abundance and diversity of these animals, installing wildlife cameras throughout the 1,000sq miles ...

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, ...

A buzzard sits on a pole's remains which was cut by workers, in a forest in the state radiation ecology reserve in the 30 km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the ...

Stray puppies aren’t the only signs of life in the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ). Aside from the employees who continue to clean up the aftermath of the 1986 nuclear power plant accident, the area is ...

The accident at reactor four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 generated the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. The impact of the acute exposure ...