The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...

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

EXCLUSIVE: CNN and Nat Geo are teaming up for their latest international series, Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown.

In a powerful symbol of resilience, Ukraine is working to turn the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the nearby city of Slavutych into international tourism and education centers. The goal is to preserve ...

While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, coal mining was associated with 3,242 worker deaths in 1907, which had ...

Chernobyl’s landscape recovered in unexpected ways, but uneven radiation, hidden harm, and human absence reveal a far more ...

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the nuclear accident, vast swathes of northern Ukraine ...

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...

The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic reactor explosion of 1986 — grim shorthand for what still qualifies, more than three decades later, as the world’s worst nuclear ...

The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was the world's worst nuclear accident, with 31 people dying immediately and thousands more ...

The plot revolves around a CIA agent spying at the station before the accident Russian state TV is preparing to broadcast its own drama retelling the story of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, but ...