A reactor at the nuclear plant melted down in 1986, releasing smoke and causing thousands of deaths from radiation.

The story of about 900 Chernobyl dogs adapting to radioactive environment reveals the ongoing impact of the nuclear disaster.

The packs of 'radiation hounds' can withstand Chernobyl's deadly nuclear fallout - by mutating beyond their regular canine ...

While there are many things Australia wants to forget, one seems to be its very own Chernobyl, Wittenoom, a place very few ...

Chernobyl is an area that has been deemed unsuitable for living. Nearly four decades after an explosion expelled 400 times ...

WHEN maverick Ukrainian entrepreneur Vadym Minziuk’s life was destroyed in the 2014 Russian invasion he had no choice but to ...

These worms, called nematodes, have simple genomes and a short lifespan, which enabled researchers to study their multiple ...

The fungus, which has been found on Chernobyl's Reactor 4, has adapted to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy.

Microscopic worms that live their lives in the highly radioactive environment of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) appear to ...

“We’re keeping calm for the time being,” Mr Heiko told his colleague, even though there were no guidelines for what employees at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant should do in the event of war. The ...

ENR correspondent Peter Reina took a journey into the Chernobyl exclusion zone in eastern Ukraine to see the construction of ...

CHERNOBYL has transformed wild dogs into radiation hounds who can survive the deadly nuclear fallout, scientists have revealed. Two stray canine populations have managed to adapt to the ...