After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the surrounding region became one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans left—but wildlife stayed. Scientists have since documented deformities, genetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wild deer walks on snow in a forest inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine (Local Library) Across the Chernobyl exclusion ...

It will be 39 years since the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, but the aftermath still isn't over. The 1986 explosion is known as a devastating human tragedy, and it had an equally catastrophic impact ...

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 ...

A study in Belarus has concluded that wildlife probably benefited from the catastrophic Chernobyl power plant meltdown in 1986, with newly ­published survey data revealing just how extensively animal ...

Thirty years after the world's most catastrophic nuclear accident, the abandoned Ukrainian town of Pripyat, home to the infamous Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four ...

31 years after Chernobyl, animals in the Czech Republic, specifically boars, are still radioactive. (AAP) An agency in the Czech Republic says about a half of all wild boars in the country's southwest ...