Chernobyl

When Russian troops seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last year, following the invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky called it “a declaration of war” against Europe. Others warned that Russia’s reckless seizure of the plant could trigger a nuclear disaster to rival Chernobyl’s 1986 radiological accident. Their…

The war, unsurprisingly, has made conservation a lot harder. Oleg Dyakov, a rewilding officer from Rewilding Ukraine’s head office in Odesa and one of the organization’s cofounders, recounts the hazards his teams have faced with a casual frustration. Marine mines drifting in from the Black Sea stalled the release of…

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Craig Mazin no longer involved Borderlands' film adaptation will hit theatres on August, 9, 2024. The release date was revealed by Deadline, which noted that the screenplay was co-written by…

Though it was at one point reported that the most recent draft of Lionsgate’s “Borderlands” movie had been co-written by Craig Mazin, that involvement doesn’t seem to be true. Questions about the “Chernobyl” and “The Last of Us” writer’s attachment began to rise on Sunday, when World of Reel reported…

UPDATE: Pseudonym report is "false", Mazin says. UPDATE 14/7/23: Craig Mazin has debunked the report suggesting he used a pseudonym to distance himself from the upcoming Borderlands adaptation, stating it is "false". "I am not a credited writer on the film, so I cannot claim any kind of authorship of…

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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…