The black fungus, known as Cladosporium sphaerospermum, has been found to not only survive but thrive in one of the most ...

In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a place where radiation levels remain dangerously high decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, scientists have discovered an organism defying the odds. A black fungus ...

A Russian drone has hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike at the site of the world's worst nuclear ...

A Russian drone struck the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in an attack overnight into Friday, Ukrainian President ...

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The IAEA, which has a team stationed at the site, did not assign blame but confirmed that its observers heard an explosion.

“Radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable,” the IAEA said on X. Speaking on Telegram, Zelenskyy said the Chernobyl strike showed that Putin "is certainly not preparing for ...

The Chernobyl No. 4 reactor exploded in April 1986 during a routine safety test, spewing radiation across Ukraine and Belarus — both then part of the Soviet Union — and other parts of Europe.

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of ...

Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times The structure at Chernobyl that was hit on Friday is a huge arching shelter covering what remains of the crippled reactor. The meltdown spewed radiation into ...

The UN's nuclear watchdog (the IAEA) said radiation levels inside and outside Chernobyl were normal and stable - but later the plant's chief engineer, Oleksandr Titarchuk, said the possibility of ...