Chernobyl disaster

Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl to explore events that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster and to understand what we can learn from them. A woman reflects on how Kent families helped children ...
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Bears now roam the Chernobyl dead zone - and the mutations are hard to ignore

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

Chernobyl survivors have paid the ultimate price in the Russia-Ukraine war

In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chernobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident. Today marks 40 years since the ...
The Conversation

40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl

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 ...
El Cronista

A giant abandoned fungus is discovered in Chernobyl: it feeds on radiation and uses nuclear energy to grow

On the walls of one of the most radioactive buildings on the planet, an organism survives where almost no form of life can ...