The frogs’ adaptations is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...
On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) ...
When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for centuries. The accident released large amounts of radioactive material into ...
Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. On ...
KOROSTEN, Ukraine -- Ukrainian health officials expressed concern Thursday about an ever-increasing number of Chernobyl-related cancer cases, as the government pushed to start rebuilding on land ...
The physical and financial legacies of that disaster are obvious: a 30-km uninhabited ring around the Chernobyl plant, billions of dollars spent cleaning the region and a major new effort to drum up ...