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 ...

It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster, but it is likely you have never heard of it. Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine, Windscale in Cumbria is not vivid in the public imagination.

One of the key areas that have seen significant improvement is education. Over the past four years, the government allocated approximately Br1.7 billion for the construction and renovation of ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

In a major mining region of Ukraine, President Trump’s proposal to collect profits from mineral wealth is meeting with a mix ...

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

The survival and resurgence of the region’s fauna is perhaps the only good to have come out of the unrelentingly bleak story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster; it serves as a modest form of atonement, ...

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 ...

Deep within the Lungs of the World - the Amazon Rainforest - a disaster of unprecedented magnitude is taking place. Those responsible are determined to keep it a secret. Vladimir Putin probably ...

When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell over the damaged nuclear reactor in Chernobyl was one of the biggest structures ...