For nearly four decades the area surrounding the ruined Soviet reactor has remained largely empty of people, yet full of wildlife adapting to an unusual landscape. After the April 1986 explosion at ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

While dogs are often thought to be our best friends, and we’ve been living alongside them for thousands of years, we’re still finding out new things about them all the time. Some of these are on a ...