It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t actually show any genetic differences were caused by radiation. The idea of ...

After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, twisting trees, and leaving the area mostly uninhabitable for humans. But over ...

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 ...

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl, The Mirror visits Bala, Wales, where pollution from the horror blast caused years of upheaval for the peaceful farming community, and left a devastating leg ...

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...

Across Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in a radioactive landscape larger than Luxembourg. Afghan man convicted of conspiracy in deadly suicide ...

Be careful about reading too many detective novels to your pet sheep — they just might solve your murder. Or perhaps the ...

Forty years after the world's worst civilian nuclear accident, a thriving wildlife sanctuary has emerged in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), with wolves, foxes, lynx, elk, wild boar, brown bears ...