The Chernobyl exclusion zone has become a magnet for lurid images that seem to show nature warped by radiation, from misshapen livestock to feral dogs with unnaturally bright fur. Terrifying photos of ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of ...

Dr. Jennifer Betz, medical director for the Dogs of Chernobyl program, said there is a "0% chance that the blue color is related to radiation." In late 2025, social media users began sharing images ...

Could the dogs inside of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) be experiencing rapid evolution due to their exposure to the nuclear radiation left behind after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986? Some ...

A husband died in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, and his wife in a Russian drone attack—separated by 39 years. The tragic story of a couple swept up in two of Ukraine’s modern-era ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

Few environmental tragedies have been as deeply ingrained in popular culture as the Chernobyl disaster. In 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion of unprecedented proportions, ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...