It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

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 ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still living with the fallout. Until now, scientists haven't been sure whether the children of people ...

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

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, wildlife has returned in large numbers—suggesting that the absence of humans may have a greater impact on ecosystems than radiation itself.

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 ...