Forty years ago, the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl sent plumes of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Now, New Scientist has gained exclusive access to learn how vital work to decontaminate t ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, POWER visits the site to document the decommissioning effort and ...

Forty years after the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, those who were at the very centre recall the deadly details.

Jordan Dunbar explores the human stories behind the 1986 nuclear catastrophe in powerful BBC World Service productions ...

The remains of the world’s worst nuclear accident were contained in a vast steel structure. Then the Russian drone hit ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, used with permission) The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans ...

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Foreign ministers from the G7 are discussing a major effort to repair damage to the protective shelter at Ukraine’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, with costs estimated at around $575 million, a sign ...

Inside the shattered remains of Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor, where radiation levels can still kill a human in minutes, dark-pigmented fungi have been quietly thriving for decades. These organisms, rich ...

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 ...

Scientists have been stunned to find a strange, pitch‑black fungus thriving inside one of the most radioactive buildings on Earth - the structure built around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The ...