Congenital heart defects, microcephaly, and more.

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...

This dark discovery is breaking the mold. Scientists have discovered an unlikely ally in the battle to clean up Chernobyl’s radiation zones — the black mold that thrives in them. A research team found ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, ...

The Night That Never Ended Forty years have passed – but for many, the night of April 26, 1986, never truly ended. It began quietly. A test. A routine procedure inside a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl ...

Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot still sits inside the damaged reactor as a highly radioactive corium mass. Its weakening but persistent radiation keeps it central to safety research and disaster memory.

Some disasters don't just destroy '€” they reshape the world forever. Join us as we do a deep dive into the Chernobyl Meltdown, tracing the flawed decisions, systemic failures, and human cost that ...