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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Almost a decade after the nuclear disaster, wildlife photos show the site is becoming a hotbed of local 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.

Timothy Mousseau is a professor of biological sciences at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. He has published more than 90 scientific papers about the effects of radiation on wildlife with ...

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.

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 ...

A new survey of wildlife populations in the radiation-contaminated Chernobyl exclusion zone has found that many mammal species -- including elk, roe deer, red deer, wild boar, lynx and wolves ...

Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant released clouds of radioactive particles, some experts say that wildlife there has flourished while others say just the ...

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 ...