Chernobyl

When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, soldiers entered the country by crossing the northern border from Belarus. Their sights were set on capturing Kyiv, around 60 miles south. Standing between them and the capital, however, was the ruins of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and its surrounding exclusion zone,…

Chernobyl’s adaptable canines, sewage sea spray in the U.S., hibernating germs on Everest, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits Credit: NASA BULGARIA, HUNGARY AND ROMANIA The Yamnaya people, long associated with horses, are now the earliest known riders. Skeletons from around 3000 B.C.E., unearthed from burial mounds in…

More than 100 people, mostly school children, suffered sulfur dioxide poisoning in an area near the Codelco smelter in 2022. Photo: Pablo VERA / AFP Source: AFPChile's state-owned Codelco copper company, the world's top producer of the metal, closed its Ventanas smelter Wednesday in an area dubbed "Chile's Chernobyl" for…

I can still remember how flippantly, at first, I panned HBO’s 5-episode Chernobyl series back in 2019 before actually giving it a chance, thinking that there couldn’t possibly be anything that would make me want to watch what would surely be a bleak and depressing TV show about a nuclear…

Putin's men were struck down with radiation sickness after they camped in a forest near Chernobyl's nuclear disaster amid their infiltration of Ukraine last year.  Ukrainians living in Chernobyl have told of how they warned their Russian enemies of the dangers despite last year's invasion, with soldiers even fishing in…

BySharon Guynup Photographs ByMike Hettwer Published April 26, 2023 • 11 min read When Timothy Mousseau arrived at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 2017, one of the world’s most radioactive places, the population of stray dogs in the area had grown to about 750. The dogs were assumed to…

Jamaica's 2016 Olympic and 2017 World Championships 110m hurdles champion Omar McLeod is born this day in 1994. (Photo: AFP) Today is the 115th day of 2023. There are 250 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 2000: The United Nations releases a new assessment of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear…

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Scientists out of the National Human Genome Research Institute and the University of South Carolina have begun studying the effects of radiation on hundreds of feral dogs and how it could have altered their genomes in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), the area in Northern Ukraine affected by the explosion…

ON APRIL 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Nearly four decades later, the Chernobyl Power Plant and many parts of the surrounding area remain uninhabited—by humans, at least. Animals of all kinds have…