Chernobyl wildlife today. But today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, ...

On April 26, 1896, the industrial city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine was changed forever. Located just 16.5 km from the city ...

It contains some of the most contaminated land in the world, yet it has become a haven for wildlife - a nature reserve in all but name. Przewalski's horses are breeding in the zone (Picture: Sergey ...

A new survey of wildlife populations in the radiation-contaminated Chernobyl exclusion zone has found that many mammal species -- including elk, roe deer, red deer, wild boar, lynx and wolves ...

Animals Rule Chernobyl Three Decades After Nuclear Disaster. Three decades later, it’s not certain how radiation is affecting wildlife—but it’s clear that animals abound.

Timothy Mousseau is a professor of biological sciences at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. He has published more than 90 scientific papers about the effects of radiation on wildlife with ...

Maria Urupa, 73, cleans her home near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on May 10. "I've seen a lot of wildlife here," she says, claiming that wolves ate two of her dogs.

The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, which was evacuated in 1986 after a devastating explosion and fire, has become a wildlife haven on a par with heavily-protected ...

Chernobyl wildlife today. But today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, ...

Just Like Chernobyl, Wildlife Is Thriving at Fukushima Almost a Decade After Nuclear Disaster. Published Jan 07, 2020 at 12:45 PM EST Updated Jan 08, 2020 at 6:51 AM EST. By Rosie McCall .

Numerous investigations into the effects of Chernobyl's radioactive fallout on its surroundings have returned conflicting results. While some studies have found that local wildlife suffered ...