Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.

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 ...

Wolves in Chernobyl radioactivity region running among abandoned hoses with cold winter and deep snow© wildlife_outdoor/Shutterstock.com When the Chernobyl nuclear ...

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, wolves in the exclusion zone are thriving at seven times their pre-accident numbers and showing genetic changes linked to cancer resilience. Researchers found ...

Humans seem to be worse than nuclear radiation for wildlife. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone has ...

It has been forty years since reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, causing the worst nuclear disaster in ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, wolves have flourished in the exclusion zone, with populations now seven times higher than before the accident. Their presence is subtly reshaping predator ...

Wild Przewalski horses graze in a forest inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. Chornobyl is the Ukrainian name for the city.

A 2,600km² exclusion zone was established following the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, which ...