Chernobyl

It’s been 3 years since the giant, more than 36 000-ton New Safe Confinement, better known as the Arch, was put over the old sarcophagus, which was damaged and collapsing. In a way, this symbolic moment also summed up my 10 years of work documenting the Chernobyl Zone, which result…

Last year, more than 120,000 tourists visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and in 2020 that number is expected to double. Mass tourism has forever become a part of the Exclusion Zone, mostly because of the successful HBO series “Chernobyl.” Over the summer weekends, dozens of buses filled with extreme tourism…

Avi and Ari Arad, best known for their work on Marvel titles like Iron Man and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, are producing. Chernobyl's Craig Mazin is responsible for the script.Like the Uncharted movie, the big-screen Borderlands project has been in development hell for a long time. Work started on it…

Fleabag and Chernobyl, two of the breakout Brit hits of 2019, will be competing for prizes at the 46th annual Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in London on March 13. Sky and HBO’s Chernobyl scooped more nominations than any other show, and will compete in four categories including Best Drama Series…

Five years after the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl, scientists discovered a fungi known as Cryptococcus neoformans growing in the wreckage. Humans had known about this particular strain since the late 1800s, since it's known to cause some nasty infections in…

A song from the musical Les Misérables is making the rounds on Chinese social media after the death of Li Wenliang, the doctor credited as the coronavirus whistleblower.  The musical's "Can You Hear The People Sing?" has become rallying cry for pro-democracy…

Main Blog > The Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation Scientists have been studying an extremophile fungus growing at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for years. This fungus apparently grows toward radiation the way plants grow toward sunlight. It consumes the radiation and uses it for energy, like little power plants!How can…

The world's largest iceberg will soon be entering the open ocean.A68, a gigantic berg that broke free from the Antarctic in July 2017, has now pushed farther north.When it calved off of the Larsen C Ice Shelf, the iceberg had an area close to 2,300 square miles, and it has…

Twenty tawny sharks were seen wriggling in shallow water on the beach in Australia.Local resident William Bero, who filmed the scene and posted the footage to YouTube, told a news site called Tropic Now that the sharks tend to visit beaches on Mer Island to perform this "dance" as they…

The Chinese internet is seeing an overwhelming outpouring of anger and grief for Li Wenliang, a doctor who was among the first to reveal the outbreak of a new coronavirus to others in China. Li died early this morning (Feb. 7), becoming one of the roughly 640 deaths from the…