Almost 40 years ago, reactor number four exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Since then, the surrounding area has become, to the surprise of many, one of Europe’s largest nature reserves.

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In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how life copes with catastrophe. Eastern tree frogs that were once bright green ...

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

A recent study reveals that current radiation levels in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone are not significantly impacting the age, stress levels, or aging rate of local wildlife, particularly the Eastern ...

The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These two traits do not differ, in fact, between specimens captured in areas with ...

For almost four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the world saw the exclusion zone as a wasteland of radiation and decay. But today, that image is being rewritten as cameras and scientists ...

Scientists have reported that Chernobyl's remaining high levels of radiation have made some animals resistant to cancer. It’s been almost 38 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster - an event which ...

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 ...