When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...

In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...

The frogs’ adaptations is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...

Roaming in the eerie air of Chernobyl, these wolves are quietly evolving resistance to a radiation which is otherwise toxic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent reports of stray dogs with bright blue fur near an abandoned chemical plant in Russia have inadvertently shined a new light ...

In Part 3 of the Nature Comes Back - 25 Years After Chernobyl, hear more stories and learn how nature adapted to the largest nuclear accident in history. The guest panel includes Charles Bierbauer, Dr ...

Outside, a hard winter's afternoon settles on the village, but inside their cottage Nikolai and Nastia lay out a spread: apples from their orchard, pickles from their garden, mushrooms from the woods ...

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 ...

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving where radiation levels would shred human DNA, turning abandoned nuclear sites ...

They are gardening again at Chernobyl. Rounding the last corner on the road to the destroyed reactor of Unit No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the most striking discovery at the site of the ...

The restricted zone around Chernobyl is eerily quiet but one building near the scene of the worlds worst nuclear disaster is full of barking and whining. Today it is a hospital for the stray dogs that ...

The long, one-storey structure once served as a makeshift medical centre for workers from the plant to receive assistance after the 1986 disaster. Today it is a hospital for the stray dogs that remain ...