The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Luckily, despite the complete shutdown of both the plant and the neighboring town, many photos exist of the devastation that was ...

In Baia Mare, Romania, a catastrophic event 25 years ago triggered one of Europe’s worst environmental disasters, often ...

MINSK, 20 April (BelTA) – Belarus has spent and continues spending a lot on alleviating consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Tatiana Dekhterenok, Head of the Central ...

Researchers at the University of Stirling have found that animals in lakes closest to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor have more genetic mutations than those from further away, giving new insight into ...

Chernobyl, which is currently a town in the north of Ukraine, is infamous for the largest nuclear disaster in history when the town's nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown on April 26, 1986. A ...

GOMEL, 9 April (BelTA) – Belarus has managed not only to survive the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident but also to revive the affected lands, Vice Governor of Gomel Oblast Dmitry ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, thousands of dogs continue living around the abandoned exclusion zone. Scientists have been studying these animals to better understand how ...

The radioactive region around Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history, has become an ...

Thirty-six years after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine, newly uncovered archival footage and recorded interviews with those who were present paint an emotional and gripping ...

Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in ...

Russian troops who seized Chernobyl will soon suffer the effects of radiation exposure after digging trenches in the nuclear zone, the head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management ...