The physical and financial legacies of that disaster are obvious: a 30-km uninhabited ring around the Chernobyl plant, billions of dollars spent cleaning the region and a major new effort to drum up ...

Przewalski's horses inhabit the Chernobyl zone. After 20 years the population has grown, and now they gallop on radioactive territories. Credit: Anton Petrus/getty images The largest nuclear disaster ...

On 13 October, the non-profit organisation Dogs of Chernobyl, under the Clean Futures Fund, spotted blue-coloured stray dogs ...

Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of Nuclear Disaster by Melanie Arndt discovers how civil society flourished – and then faltered – in the fallout.

Kate Brown is a professor of history in MIT’s science, technology and society department. Her latest book is “Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future.” More than three decades ago,a ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi has already been dubbed the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, and the situation there continues to worsen.

The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi has already been dubbed the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, and the situation there continues to worsen. But along with references to the “ch-word,” as ...