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

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. A woman reflects on how Kent families helped children ...

Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured ...

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

Engineers take on one of the most dangerous heavy-lift projects ever attempted: moving a massive steel superstructure over the remains of Chernobyl’s No. 4 reactor. The reactor still contains ...

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. ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the sarcophagus that was installed to limit radioactive contamination over the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant following ...

After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

In November 2016, a massive metal dome was erected over the remains of the reactor paid for with almost 2.5 billion dollars ...

As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has ...