It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine ...

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...

Genetic differences found: DNA analysis shows Chernobyl dogs differ genetically from those living nearby, hinting at long-term environmental influences. Cause still unknown: Follow-up studies found no ...

These 20 pictures capture the aftermath of the infamous 1986 Chernobyl incident—effects that are, in some cases, still felt today.

They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t actually show any genetic differences were caused by radiation. The idea of ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, wolves in the exclusion zone are thriving at seven times their pre-accident numbers ...

Chernobyl, which is currently a town in the north of Ukraine, is infamous for the largest nuclear disaster in history when the town's nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown on April 26, 1986. A ...

Russian soldiers gave up control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant earlier this month. Troops stationed there will "feel the consequences" of radiation poisoning soon, a Ukrainian official said.