When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened on April 26, 1986, the region became one of the most heavily contaminated areas on the planet. A 1,000-square-mile area surrounding the doomed nuclear ...

The nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is now sealed off from the world, and should finally be safe for the foreseeable future. Why did it take so long? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine, has been a location of many fascinating and unusual phenomena over the years. And now, a strange black fungus found clinging to the ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...

There are certain things that everyone on planet Earth should be able to agree on. I say that as someone who periodically writes about issues that impact global security, in both the physical and ...