The Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone, sealed off to humans for four decades, supports more wildlife now than any formally protected nature area in northern Ukraine, according to a new study. The ...
A frozen world, sealed in time. Earth, as it was known, changed on April 26, 1986, at 1.23am, when the night split open. Inside Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a routine safety ...
Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a radioactive landscape too dangerous for human life, the world's wildest horses roam free. Przewalski's horses – stocky, sand-coloured, and almost toy-like – ...
In 2020, Svitlana Kudrenko, then a doctoral student in nature conservation, set out to study the abundance and diversity of these animals, installing wildlife cameras throughout the 1,000sq miles ...
Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident. In ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Nobel Prize–winning author Svetlana Alexievich says Belarus is still a "laboratory" in which the long-term effects of the massive radiation leak ...