After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, thousands of residents were forced to evacuate the Exclusion Zone, leaving behind pets that eventually formed free-roaming populations. Among them, dogs ...

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...

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 ...

Just because animals and plants are returning to the Chernobyl nuclear accident site, it does not mean there were no wildlife consequences from the ionizing radiation, especially in the areas that ...

In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...

Test field at Mezhiliska and location of soil sampling points. Image from Google Earth. Credit: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2025.107698 Thousands of hectares ...