33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone is inhabited by brown bears, bison, wolves, lynxes, Przewalski horses, and more than 200 bird species.

See a gallery of Chernobyl’s wildlife here. Valentina Sachepok darted ahead while I chased her through a forest in the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A camera crew ...

An argument has erupted over the environmental health of the area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear reactor that exploded catastrophically more than two decades ago. Humans are still forbidden to ...

Timothy Mousseau discusses the impact that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has had on the area's wildlife.

Animals Rule Chernobyl Three Decades After Nuclear Disaster Three decades later, it’s not certain how radiation is affecting wildlife—but it’s clear that animals abound.

The fallout from Chernobyl traveled as far as Scandinavia, and Germany; now, it’s possible to find herds of radioactive reindeer in Norway and radioactive wild boars in Germany.

The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 had a devastating impact on the local population and forced 116,000 people to permanently leave their homes. But now researchers have ...

Over the past 33 years, Chernobyl has gone from the being considered a potential desert for life to being an area of high interest for biodiversity conservation.

The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, which was evacuated in 1986 after a devastating explosion and fire, has become a wildlife haven on a par with heavily-protected ...

Chernobyl Wildlife Make a Comeback Despite Contamination The Belarus region devastated by the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident is now teeming with elk, wild boar, deer and wolves ...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, populations of some wildlife – such as wolf, elk and boar – are booming in the vast exclusion zone around the former reactor.

Read Mary Mycio’s story about Chernobyl’s wildlife here. When Mary Mycio tells people she visited the radioactive fallout zone around Chernobyl to study the region’s animals, the questions ...