When humans evacuated Chernobyl they were forced to leave their pets behind, and generations later hundreds of ...

The Hanford Site in Washington saw more than 400 billion gallons of contaminated liquid dumped into its ground during its use ...

Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

Dubbed ‘ Scotland ’s Chernobyl ’, this derelict housing estate was once a bustling home to hundreds of families. Just a ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the site still demands attention. The danger may no longer come ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, scientists have an explanation that involves the sea drying up.

That restricted land, known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, now extends 1,000 square miles. It's illegal to live there (though a few families have defied the law by moving back), and off-limits ...

The Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow was once one of the town’s busiest and most bustling. Now it is days away from being ...

Though Chernobyl is still home to a 1,000-square-mile restricted zone, the site's abandoned schoolyards, amusement park, and classrooms are now open to visitors 18 or older. "You will probably get ...

The world has been shaken by the recent decision to postpone the dismantling of the Chernobyl sarcophagus following a Russian attack on the nuclear power plant. This move, announced by the Ukrainian ...

People call it Scotland’s Chernobyl. Now, it is set to be demolished. The Clune Park estate in the Inverclyde town of Port Glasgow will see the initial destruction of its 138 properties across ...

What makes Chernobyl so unusual is that the site is ... that anyone visiting the area is safe from lingering radiation now, 33 years after the disaster. “Many people come here, they ask a ...