"I often wonder what my life could have looked like. My connection to Chernobyl remains, but it is only one part of who I am.
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...
Across Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in a radioactive landscape larger than Luxembourg. Afghan man convicted of conspiracy in deadly suicide ...
The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the ...
Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again. Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor ...
Standing just 300 meters from the Chernobyl reactor, radiation levels are still far above normal — nearly four decades after ...
It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.
Chernobyl's past and present collide as residents and workers reflect on the 1986 disaster and Russia's recent invasion.
On the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the site remains too dangerous for humans – but wildlife has moved ...
The warning sign at the entrance to the Polesie State Radiation-Ecological Reserve in Belarus' southern Gomel Region, near ...