A reactor at the nuclear plant melted down in 1986, releasing smoke and causing thousands of deaths from radiation.

The story of about 900 Chernobyl dogs adapting to radioactive environment reveals the ongoing impact of the nuclear disaster.

The packs of 'radiation hounds' can withstand Chernobyl's deadly nuclear fallout - by mutating beyond their regular canine ...

Chernobyl is an area that has been deemed unsuitable for living. Nearly four decades after an explosion expelled 400 times ...

While there are many things Australia wants to forget, one seems to be its very own Chernobyl, Wittenoom, a place very few ...

These worms, called nematodes, have simple genomes and a short lifespan, which enabled researchers to study their multiple ...

Microscopic worms that live their lives in the highly radioactive environment of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) appear to ...

The fungus, which has been found on Chernobyl's Reactor 4, has adapted to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy.

“We found land to settle. Now the land near Chernobyl is our home.” He adds: “My friends and family often ask ‘'What’s with the radiation?’ I tell them not to worry.” Vadym is so at ...

“We’re keeping calm for the time being,” Mr Heiko told his colleague, even though there were no guidelines for what employees at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant should do in the event of war. The ...

ENR correspondent Peter Reina took a journey into the Chernobyl exclusion zone in eastern Ukraine to see the construction of ...

WHEN maverick Ukrainian entrepreneur Vadym Minziuk’s life was destroyed in the 2014 Russian invasion he had no choice but to flee. He moved his family to the only place he could afford to start ...