Japanese photographer and film director Seiichi Motohashi, known for documenting villagers living in the aftermath of the ...

Fears are mounting after a $2billion (£1.5bn) dome built over the remains of the Chernobyl disaster cracked following a Russian drone strike. The New Safe Confinement (NSC) in Ukraine was built over ...

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There may be a surprising reason behind the mysterious blue dogs that were recently spotted roaming the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Photos taken earlier this year showed several dogs with bright blue ...

'Rapidly-evolving' dogs and frogs that change colour are some of the bizarre animal mutations reported at the radioactive Chernobyl site nearly 40 years on from the nuclear disaster. Scientists ...

The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job, reports claimed on Sunday. The UN nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA ...

The protective shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant can no longer contain radioactive material from the sites’ 1986 disaster after being crippled in a drone strike, the UN nuclear watchdog said ...

Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to do its main safety function, a nuclear watchdog said. The drone strike ...

Three dogs living at Chernobyl were recently spotted with bright blue fur, sparking a storm of social media speculation that radiation had caused the unusual coloring. Since 2017, the Dogs of ...

The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, according to ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...