Congenital heart defects, microcephaly, and more.

Standing just 300 meters from the Chernobyl reactor, radiation levels are still far above normal — nearly four decades after ...

Have the canines acquired strange mutations living near the power plant?

On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and serious mismanagement had caused the worst nuclear disa ...

Genetic differences found: DNA analysis shows Chernobyl dogs differ genetically from those living nearby, hinting at long-term environmental influences. Cause still unknown: Follow-up studies found no ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...

The Gosatomregulirovanie notes that the Radiation Safety Standards in Ukraine describe the permissible level of cesium-137 in ...

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

The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These two traits do not differ, in fact, between specimens captured in areas with ...

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...