When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened on April 26, 1986, the region became one of the most heavily contaminated areas on the planet. A 1,000-square-mile area surrounding the doomed nuclear ...

Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown is continuing on Sunday, March 8 at 9 p.m. There are several ways to watch with a free live stream.

In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation in ways that appear to blunt their cancer risk. Far from collapsing, their ...

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 ...

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