A new study found that wolves, bears, lynx, moose, and wild horses are thriving within Chernobyl’s exclusion zone.
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Surviving in a poisoned land: Chernobyl's wildlife is different, but not in the ways you might think
It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.
A study found 11 mammal species, including Przewalski's horses, Eurasian lynx and moose, are occupying Chernobyl ...
Radioactive landscape too dangerous for human life now boasts some of the world's wildest horses, wolves and Eurasian lynx ...
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On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor ...
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 ...
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...
In the isolated forests encroaching on the ruins of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, too dangerous for humans to inhabit, wolves are mysteriously thriving.
A forest fire burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 8 May, 2026 ...
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