Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

But somehow, the still-very-real health risks inherent to lingering around certain parts of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone just didn’t sink in with Russian soldiers and their commanding officers based ...

Suggested Citation: "Front Matter." Mary Mycio. 2005. Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press. doi: 10.17226/11318. The Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of ...

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MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukrainian firefighters labored into Sunday night trying to put out two forest blazes in the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power station, which was evacuated because of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Emergency teams in ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Emergency services were battling on Tuesday to prevent Ukraine's largest forest fire since 1992 from spreading towards the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Prime Minister ...

Hundreds of firefighters on Monday battled a forest blaze in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone while officials insisted there was no risk to the ruined reactor and nearby storage facilities for ...

Radiation levels near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster have spiked as firefighters battle to contain two forest fires in the area. Radiation levels near the site of the Chernobyl ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...