On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...

The anniversary falls on April 26, 2026, marking 40 years since the worst technological disaster in Europe — the accident at ...

ORF Universum Nature is gearing up to release Radioactive Wolves—Chernobyl’s Forbidden Wilderness, a new and updated edition of the documentary Radioactive Wolves.

About 100 miles southwest of the city of Gomel lies the ghost of a town that once died a half-death on April 26, 1986. An abandoned town sits flanked by mounds of radiation-laced material that no one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers studying gray wolf populations near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site discovered a genetic evolution that may be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion ...

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Wolves in Chernobyl radioactivity region running among abandoned hoses with cold winter and deep snow© wildlife_outdoor/Shutterstock.com When the Chernobyl nuclear ...