A rare camera-trap study logged the effects of armed conflict on wild animals in real time. By Emily Anthes The radioactive ...

An international research team has for the first time investigated how an unfolding armed conflict influenced the behavior of ...

Camera footage in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone revealed that mammals became less active — especially at night — during the Russian occupation, highlighting the war's immediate impact on ...

A radioactive rewilding laboratory Off-limits to people since 1986, the roughly 2,600-square-kilometer Exclusion Zone has ...

Chernobyl wolves absorb six times the human radiation limit yet thrive, showing genomic shifts that could inform future ...

A photo shows wild Przewalski's horses on a snow covered field in the Chernobyl exclusions zone (Image: AFP/Getty Images) The wildlife that has flourished in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone is now ...

A “SUPER fungus” colonising the abandoned ruins of Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant is mystifying scientists. Clinging to the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

PARISHEV, Ukraine — Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the ...

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 ...