Released into early access on PC in 2021 and eventually also made available on consoles, Chernobylite combines survival horror with the action RPG genre rather well, allowing players to head out on ...

A rare camera-trap study logged the effects of armed conflict on wild animals in real time. By Emily Anthes The radioactive region around Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in ...

Forty years removed from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 1986 that saw the catastrophic failure of reactor 4, Chernobyl itself remains a tragic time capsule, serving as a sobering ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

A large forest fire is spreading through the Chernobyl exclusion zone after a drone struck the area yesterday. Though the fire is serious, those on the ground say the risk of radioactive contamination ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

COLUMBIA — Forty years ago, in the early hours of April 26, 1986, a test gone wrong at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near present-day Pripyat, Ukraine, created an explosion that rendered the ...

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 ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, ...

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 ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that ...