A rare camera-trap study logged the effects of armed conflict on wild animals in real time. By Emily Anthes The radioactive ...

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 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 ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border when a series of steam explosions led to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, then part of the Soviet Union. The ...

What explains this surprising finding? The answer appears to be a complex mix of history, ecology, and diet. Bavaria’s wild ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident. In ...

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 ...