When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Mutant wolves that roam the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could be key to helping humans fight the deadly disease, according to a study. The wild ...

Tiny worms that live in the highly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone were found to be immune to radiation — which scientists hope could provide clues about why some humans develop cancer, while ...

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked ...

Chernobyl wolves are growing resistant to cancer despite their high radiation exposure. The wolves are exposed to six times the legal safety limit of radiation for humans. Decades after the nuclear ...

Wolves in Chernobyl’s radiation zone appear to have developed a resistance to cancer after being exposed to high levels of radiation in the wake of the nuclear disaster 35 years ago, according to a ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened on April 26, 1986, the region became one of the most heavily contaminated areas ...

The exclusion zone still carries radiation hotspots, making exploration dangerous. Crumbling buildings, gas masks on ...

How fast does radiation dissipate following a nuclear disaster? There have only been a handful of reactor meltdowns ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to ...