On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...

Wolves in Chernobyl radioactivity region running among abandoned hoses with cold winter and deep snow© wildlife_outdoor/Shutterstock.com When the Chernobyl nuclear ...

The silent, snow-dusted ruins of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine are far from dead. While humans fled the radioactive fallout of the 1986 nuclear disaster, nature staged a remarkable takeover.

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the world, crawling with cockroaches and patrolled by radioactive mutant wolves ...