Researchers collected soil and ash after the 2020 wildfires in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Chemical tests suggested that the fires made it easier for contaminants to wash into nearby rivers.

A few years ago, on one of her first visits to Chernobyl, Katherine Raines went to the Red Forest, a radioactive cemetery of pine trees scorched by the nuclear accident in 1986. She was curious to see ...

Indeed, such was the Russians’ ignorance that when the siege of Kyiv began faltering in late March 2022, they dug defensive trenches in Chernobyl’s Red Forest, an area so contaminated by the ...

A recent study revealed the impressive impacts that the street dogs of Chernobyl may have suffered ... affected a pack of wild dogs roaming the Red Forest. In the study published in Canine ...