Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown is premiering on Sunday, March 1 at 9 p.m. There are several ways to watch with a free live stream.

On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant experienced a catastrophic explosion, leading to the ...

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