After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, humans abandoned the exclusion zone — but nature never left. The transcript follows the animals now living in one of the most contaminated places on Earth: dogs ...

A radioactive rewilding laboratory Off-limits to people since 1986, the roughly 2,600-square-kilometer Exclusion Zone has turned into a vast, accidental nature reserve. Gray wolves now roam it in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever since the nuclear disaster of 1986, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has taken on a second life as an animal haven of sorts.

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a radioactive landscape too dangerous for human life, the world's wildest horses roam free. Przewalski's horses – stocky, sand-coloured, and almost toy-like – ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, used with permission) The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans ...

Tiny worms that live in the highly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone were found to be immune to radiation — which scientists hope could provide clues about why some humans develop cancer, while ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. What has happened to the wildlife in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone? The ...

Humans, it turns out, pose a bigger threat to animals than radiation. The Chernobyl nuclear reactor blew up 30 years ago on Tuesday, sending a radioactive cloud over much of Europe and prompting the ...

Cesium-137 has a half-life of 30 years, but they will continue to be hazardous for another 270 years, Alexander Ivanov noted ROSTOV-ON-DON, May 14. /TASS/. Radionuclides emitted into the atmosphere by ...

On April 28, 1986, the Soviet news program Vremya made a 14-second announcement about an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in Ukraine. One of the plant’s nuclear reactors had been damaged, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year ...