Standing in the middle of Chernobyl sounds like something from a nightmare. The abandoned buildings, empty streets, and ...

Netflix’s eight-episode thriller is a gripping disaster miniseries that makes a perfect weekend binge for fans of HBO’s ...

In winter, a wood frog can lie under leaves in a North American forest while ice forms around its body. Its heart and breathing stop. Blood flow grinds to a halt. For weeks or even months, the animal ...

The reactors at the Chernobyl and ZNPP stations differ in design and levels of containment. Yet as we learned from the nuclear accident in 2011 at Fukushima, Japan, precipitated by an earthquake and ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border when a series of steam explosions led to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, then part of the Soviet Union. The ...

As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has ...

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident was ...

An hour after midnight on 26 April 1986, a catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused loss of human life, left people scrambling to flee, and within days, the entire area of ...

Decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists discovered strange populations of dogs surviving deep inside one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Some animals developed unusual ...