From radiation-eating fungi to tanned frogs, scientists are making extraordinary discoveries in the ruins of the 1986 ...

Three men entered the flooded basement beneath Chernobyl's destroyed Reactor 4 to open two drainage valves. The famous ...

After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO - A view shows the destroyed Reactor Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following the catastrophic explosion. ...

On the walls of one of the most radioactive buildings on the planet, an organism survives where almost no form of life can ...

In November 2016, a massive metal dome was erected over the remains of the reactor paid for with almost 2.5 billion dollars in international funding to stop future leaks.

Forty years after the nuclear disaster, an exhibition in Milan investigates what is happening to animals, plants, and ...

But the most terrible impact of this vicious disaster was not on nature or the economy, but on human beings and society.