Decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists discovered strange populations of dogs surviving deep inside one of ...

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 ...

April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

Almost exactly forty years ago, Chernobyl’s number four reactor exploded in what proved to be the single most devastating ...

Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

A moose family in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. (Film Studio Aves/Creatas Video/Getty Images) The explosion of a reactor in ...

The Greenpeace, an international environmental organisation founded in 1971, has warned of radioactivity risk at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after its shell got damaged. The warning comes days ...

Chernobyl exclusion zone now has more wildlife than Ukraine’s nature reserves, study finds - Radioactive landscape too ...

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...