Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Chernobyl is often presented as evidence that wildlife can flourish in radioactive landscapes.

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Four decades on, Chernobyl remains too dangerous ...

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl, The Mirror visits Bala, Wales, where pollution from the horror blast caused years of upheaval for the peaceful farming community, and left a devastating leg ...

Sergei Belyakov was one of the brave volunteers who shovelled radioative debris scattered by the explosion back into reactor number four.

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of Earth's most haunting yet paradoxical places, where death and life intertwine in ways no scientist ever predicted. Nearly 39 years after the world's worst ...

A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kilometres of land. Dry ...

I first visited Chernobyl in 2016, 30 years after the explosion at Reactor Four. I expected silence and scarcity – a lifeless place, defined by radiation. Instead, I found beavers swimming beneath a ...

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing, he chose to fight his “first war” against radiation.

'We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.' ...

The 1986 meltdown at Chernobyl was the world's worst ever nuclear power plant incident - Copyright AFP Glody MURHABAZI The 1986 meltdown at Chernobyl was the world's ...