The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is located about 81 miles ... which, admittedly, are probably about a hundred times the background dose of anywhere else in the world," Lyman said.

The area, dubbed the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, ... "These results create an interesting background for understanding avian ecology in radiologically contaminated areas," Piirto said.

The Soviet military rapidly established an ' Chernobyl Exclusion Zone' around the plant - a 30-mile cordon where public access was forbidden - and which is now a haven for wildlife.

Our work reveals that Chernobyl tree frogs have a much darker colouration than frogs captured in control areas outside the zone. As we found out in 2016, some are pitch-black.

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 ...

Some clean areas measured close to the standard background level of radiation one might find anywhere (about 0.34 microsieverts per hour, on average, in the United States).

Soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, sensors in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone reported radiation spikes. A researcher now believes he’s found evidence the data was manipulated.

Dogs living in and around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine are genetically ... “That means we can use German shepherds from other places as a kind of background to look at genetic ...

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now northern Ukraine. After one of the plant’s reactors exploded during a test ...

Thousands of hectares of Chernobyl-affected farmland, long deemed too dangerous for cultivation in northern Ukraine can safely return to production, according to new research.