Art deco has a history of being a glitzy distraction from effecting genuine change during moments of turmoil, writes ...

Ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich returned to the place where she grew up to give voice to the people who lived through the events a ...

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made environmental disasters ...

Although Chernobyl has left a devastating legacy across Europe’s former communist bloc, including East Germany, it is a crumb of comfort that it took place at the bitter end of the Cold War in an area ...

Baba Vanga, the 'Nostradamus of the Balkans,' predicted a global communist resurgence by 2076 and the world's end in 5079, ...

The area, which still remains out of bounds for humans, is home to tiny species of insects/worms that keep attracting ...

If one were to hazard a guess as to the largest nature reserve in Europe, Chernobyl would be an unlikely contender. And yet, over the last thirty years, a vast area closed off to all but a few ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... When the war began on 24 February 2022, explosions erupted near the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine’s northern ...

Chernobyl Roulette, by the Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy, is a good first draft of this history. Along with the wild chronology of events, Plokhy provides brief yet vivid sketches of the people ...

Chernobyl tours have not been operating since the start of the Ukraine-Russia war ... media and narratives that tell personal stories and give visitors the opportunity to learn about the history of ...

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now northern Ukraine. After one of the plant’s reactors exploded during a test ...

The fire after the drone strike is still ongoing. The aftermath of the Russian drone strike on February 14 is being eliminated at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Rescuers are extinguishing three ...