On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

In the aftermath, Pripyat was evacuated just a day after the explosion, turning it into a ghost town almost instantly. This tragic history remains palpable in the stillness of the streets, where ...

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

The best thing about Alex Garland's 2018 film Annihilation is how silently it makes the environment tell us it's all about ...

Gold’s latest quarterly gains now seriously rival the rise seen in 1986, the year of the Chernobyl disaster. The comparison ...

Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded the 6th Jeju 4·3 Peace Prize. Established in 2015, the ...

Fires and smoke foul the air. Toxins seep into the earth and water. Habitats for wildlife disappear. Experts call it ecocide.

The props were used in actual episodes. I would love to know what they are worth... this time next year, could we be ...

When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell over the damaged nuclear reactor in Chernobyl was one of the biggest structures ever moved by humans. In February a Russian drone put a hole in it.

Alexei Navalny is dead. And yet he lives. He lives to trouble Vladimir Putin, the authoritarian strongman of Russia who may ...