Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl to explore events that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster and to understand what we can learn from them.

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

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, large mammals are reclaiming the exclusion zone. New research links this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Chernobyl exclusion zone, March 16, 2026; Danylo Dubchak/Frontliner/Getty The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ...

Twenty years later the full extent of the worst nuclear accident the world has seen is still unknown. On 26 April 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, contaminating ...

Covered up by a secretive Soviet Union at the time, the true number of deaths and illnesses caused by the nuclear accident are only now becoming clear. Springtime was always the busiest time of year ...

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, ...

The Chernobyl disaster took place in 1986, when a Russian power plant in Ukraine burst open, ejecting lethal nuclear matter into the Earth’s atmosphere. The plant’s reactor has been covered for 30 ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google KYIV, Ukraine — Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster released massive radiation and affected millions. Dozens died immediately, with thousands more linked to long-term effects. The area remains restricted as cleanup continues ...

An attack on Bushehr would have resulted in a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster. But more significant could be the presence of ...