Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.
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Surviving in a poisoned land: Chernobyl's wildlife is different, but not in the ways you might think
It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...
Olena Maruzhenko remembers her mother sobbing when Soviet police told them to evacuate their home in the village of Korogod in northern Ukraine. Just 12km away, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear ...
The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...
Whether you recognize that HBO's Chernobyltook liberties in its story or not, there's no denying that the historical drama is riveting, eye-opening, and beautifully presented. As with any other ...
The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, and its 40th anniversary in 2026 is being marked with global reflection – including in Cumbria, which both felt the fallout and ...
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