"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

Images of dogs with bright blue fur near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have left people scratching their heads. These canines are believed to be descendants of pets abandoned in northern Ukraine ...

In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chernobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident.

Dr. Jennifer Betz, medical director for the Dogs of Chernobyl program, said there is a "0% chance that the blue color is related to radiation." In late 2025, social media users began sharing images ...

Svetlana Alexievich is Belarus’ only Nobel Laureate – but the exiled journalist’s work is suppressed within her own country.

The explosion of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986 left a large area around the plant uninhabitable by humans because of lingering nuclear radiation. However, animals, like feral dogs, have continued to ...

Forty years on from the disaster, children affected by the fallout recall respite trips to the UK.

It is estimated that 22,000 hectares were burned during the Russian invasion of Chernobyl. Several Przewalski’s horses have ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the Slavutych City authorities have signed a memorandum of cooperation with the goal of developing local tourism as part of the post-war revival of the region.

The New Safe Confinement sarcophagus covers the destroyed reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power station on November 29, 2016 in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Before Russian troops crossed the ...

Chicago Electronic Artist Turns Historical Obsession Into Music — and a Mission to Aid Displaced Ukrainians Forty ...