The restricted zone around Chernobyl is eerily quiet but one building near the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster is full of barking and whining. The long, one-storey structure once served as ...

Chernobyl's dogs turned blue in 2025, and it wasn't radiation. A biologist unpacks the real, verifiable science behind the ...

Back in September, PEOPLE shared an article about the tough fate of dogs living in and around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine. After the disastrous explosion at the plant in 1986, ...

The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life responds to chronic radiation. For years, they have been framed as a ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Forty years later, the ...

Three bright blue dogs spotted outside the Chernobyl nuclear plant in October 2024 triggered a global wave of speculation that quickly outpaced the facts. Photos of the animals, roaming near the edge ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of the region's most unexpected survivors is a population of free-roaming dogs that may offer insight into how life adapts in contaminated ...

While Chernobyl isn't safe for human life, scientists have found that dogs are thriving in the abandoned lands, with the exposure impacting their genetic makeup ...

COLUMBIA — Forty years ago, in the early hours of April 26, 1986, a test gone wrong at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near present-day Pripyat, Ukraine, created an explosion that rendered the ...