About 100 miles southwest of the city of Gomel lies the ghost of a town that once died a half-death on April 26, 1986. An abandoned town sits flanked by mounds of radiation-laced material that no one ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...

The 1986 disaster created an exclusion zone where abandoned pets and wildlife were exposed to extreme radiation, followed by evacuation that left animals to survive without human support. Descendants ...

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

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam ...