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

(WJW) – A new study has found worms collected in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have a special type of superpower. The 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant transformed the area around it ...

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked to reduced cancer risk, according to research described by Princeton ...

After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the surrounding region became one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans left—but wildlife stayed. Scientists have since documented deformities, genetic ...