Nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, scientists have discovered a form of life that's thriving on the radiation that's been left behind. A strange black fungus called ...

Ukraine is marking 40 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with commemorations that include the return of former 'liquidators' to the exclusion zone. Once the site of the world's worst nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nataliia Khodemchuk's husband Valery died in the initial explosion at Reactor 4 in 1986 - State Agency of Ukraine of on Exclusion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chernobyl exclusion zone now has more wildlife than Ukraine’s nature reserves, study finds The Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone, ...

Are the dogs of Chernobyl evolving right in front of us? That's a question some scientists have been asking in new research that has been keeping tabs on the wild animals roaming around the Chernobyl ...

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities say the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, has been knocked off the power grid. Emergency generators are now ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...

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 ...