A black fungus that's growing in Chernobyl's infamous No. 4 nuclear reactor is absorbing some of its radiation as part of its ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been travelling regularly to the city since 2002. He is now publishing his second book on ...

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects ...

One of the most prominent examples of dark tourism today is Chernobyl, the site of a catastrophic nuclear disaster. On the ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 was a pivotal moment which ultimately accelerated the collapse of the USSR, making it one of the most historically significant events in recent history.

A resilient fungus growing on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has adapted to “feed” on levels of radiation which would kill most other life forms. Scientists have observed the highly resilient ...