A few years ago I had a friend who told me they were going to visit Chernobyl, arguably the place on earth most associated with nuclear radiation. The full and tragic story of the Chernobyl Nuclear ...

Dr. Jennifer Betz, medical director for the Dogs of Chernobyl program, said there is a "0% chance that the blue color is related to radiation." In late 2025, social media users began sharing images ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in ...