The long-term effects have been documented in surviving wildlife. Studies have reported cataracts in voles, developmental ...

As fiercer storms collide with an aging industrial system, a unique kind of catastrophe is becoming more commonplace—and no one, it seems, is fully prepared to stop it.

Political analyst Konstantin Blokhin says a major US nuclear strike on Iran is unlikely because radioactive fallout could ...

It's estimated that there would be more than 90 million people dead and injured within the first few hours of the conflict.

Although the landscape around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant may seem apocalyptic, dog packs have managed to inhabit it.

For the first time since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, nuclear reactor construction worldwide has reached record ...

Located within this zone are the town of Chernobyl and the city of Pripyat —the latter being the most famous ghost town in the world, as it was the settlement closest to the nuclear power plant. Today ...

The career of Mikhail Malenkov, who applied the engineering principles used to create the Lunokhod lunar rovers to develop ...

Genes linked to DNA repair, immunity and cancer are found in differences between dogs near the plant and those from a nearby ...

Eastern tree frogs sampled near the Chernobyl exclusion zone had 43.6% darker skin than frogs from less-contaminated areas. ...

A 2026 study found biological changes linked to radiation exposure in Chernobyl wolves, including differences in ...

A new genome study of 106 dogs near the Chernobyl plant finds hints of natural selection, not new mutations, behind their ...