Chernobyl wildlife today. But today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, ...

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 ...

The wildlife population has grown “dramatically,” says Gaschak, who has worked in the zone for the past 30 years. (Read about people in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in " The Nuclear Tourist .") ...

Chernobyl wildlife today. But today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, ...

Today, some hot spots are still 100 times more radioactive than normal. But the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone no longer looks like a wasteland–and a new study suggests that some wildlife is thriving ...

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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.

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 Skip to content Gizmodo ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was created shortly after the nuclear disaster and now covers 2,8000 square kilometers in northern Ukraine, making it the third-largest nature reserve in mainland Europe.

Numerous investigations into the effects of Chernobyl's radioactive fallout on its surroundings have returned conflicting results. While some studies have found that local wildlife suffered ...