The programme was carried out between 2013 and 2015 with the involvement of animal welfare professionals. These South Atlantic reindeer possessed a unique genetic heritage, as they were the only ...

A recent announcement that 177 cities, towns and villages will lose their “contaminated” status on January 1, 2027 affects ...

Chernobyl was the worst manmade disaster in history that still has lingering effects today. Russia is trying to get its hands on Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, capturing Chernobyl, which is ...

It took only hours for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to hang a nuclear threat over Europe. But the defunct Chernobyl power plant may pose less of a hazard than the forest surrounding it, or the 15 ...

“All Chernobyl facilities” are now under Russian control after clashes at the site, according to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. National Security Reporter Ukrainian officials are warning that ...

Dogs are humanity's best friend, and this is partially because we've bred them to better suit our preferences and needs. The Alaskan Malamute and Komondor, for example, were intentionally bred to ...

Sweden is leveraging its citizens' foraging traditions to trace lingering radioactive fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority has appealed to mushroom-pickers ...

Sweden's strong foraging culture could help determine how much radioactive fallout remains in the Scandinavian country 38 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. The Swedish Radiation Safety ...

This article originally appeared in the May 12, 1986, edition of U.S. News & World Report. It was the recurrent nightmare of the 20th century. A nuclear power plant explodes, the core begins to melt, ...

The nuclear accident in Chernobyl in 1986 led to the spread of radioactivity across Sweden and Europe. In a long-term study now published in Environmental Epidemiology, researchers have used new, more ...