Thirty-five years ago, when the nuclear reactor unit at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, I was a physician among the first responders ...

More than 35 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant – somehow still able to find food, breed and ...

With humans largely out of the picture, wildlife has returned to the once-settled Chernobyl area. Last year, researchers found that the region's grey wolves have become largely immune to the ...

Japan may not have fully learned Chernobyl's clearest lesson: Candor about a catastrophe is key. Authorities are coming under criticism from the international community as well as their own people for ...