In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any information about the scope of the disaster, aside from terse announcements ...
Photos of the infamous nuclear Chernobyl site show the abandoned power plant frozen in time — with a control panel still lit ...
Across Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in a radioactive landscape larger ...
After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...
The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart.
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, but the rest of the world wouldn't learn how close it came to ...
Chicago Electronic Artist Turns Historical Obsession Into Music — and a Mission to Aid Displaced Ukrainians Forty ...
Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.
FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...
In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near ...
For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the ...