Forty years after the world’s worst nuclear accident forced more than 100,000 people from their homes, the forests around the Chernobyl reactor are teeming with life that was never supposed to return.

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...

"I often wonder what my life could have looked like. My connection to Chernobyl remains, but it is only one part of who I am.

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

It was 1.23am when disaster struck. A routine safety test led to a catastrophic explosion. Poor design and inadequate safety procedures saw radioactive material scattered around the globe. In just 48 ...

Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine -- Klavdia Omelchenko has never summoned the courage to return to her former home in the town of Pripyat-- hastily abandoned during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 -- until now ...

Chernobyl's past and present collide as residents and workers reflect on the 1986 disaster and Russia's recent invasion.