Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear accident forced tens of thousands of people to abandon their homes, the ...

Four decades after the 1986 reactor accident forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, the contaminated land ...

Forty years after the disaster, wolves, lynx and wild horses thrive at sevenfold density in Chernobyl, though abundance isn't ...

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a radioactive landscape too dangerous for human life, the world's wildest horses roam free. Przewalski's horses – stocky, sand-coloured, and almost toy-like – ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Forty years later, the ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

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 ...