The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...

When photos of bright blue dogs wandering through the ruins of Chernobyl began circulating online, the internet leapt to a ...

Wild animals have free range around northern Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which spread radiation throughout the region in 1986. Studies have ...

Worms living near the world’s most well-known nuclear disaster zone appear to have developed new powers - immunity to radiation. In a new study, scientists visited Chernobyl to investigate nematodes, ...

The explosion of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986 left a large area around the plant uninhabitable by humans because of lingering nuclear radiation. However, animals, like feral dogs, have continued to ...

Almost 40 years ago, reactor number four exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Since then, the surrounding area has become, to the surprise of many, one of Europe’s largest nature reserves.

CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE, Belarus — What happens to the environment when humans disappear? Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, booming populations of wolf, elk and other wildlife in the ...

Just because animals and plants are returning to the Chernobyl nuclear accident site, it does not mean there were no wildlife consequences from the ionizing radiation, especially in the areas that ...

After the disaster at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, local residents were forced to permanently evacuate, leaving behind their homes and, in some cases, their pets. Concerned ...

BABCHIN, Belarus (Reuters) - We venture out at dawn from a dilapidated shack nestled in a forest to see the animals, although rising early is not always necessary. Still inhospitable to humans, the ...

Many species in the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone have higher population numbers than before the nuclear accident, according to a new study published in Current Biology. The higher population ...

Vasily Fedosenko is a Reuters photographer based in the Belarussian capital, Minsk. Born in 1960 in the provincial town of Bobruisk, he initially trained as an engineer but late in the Soviet era ...