Just because animals and plants are returning to the Chernobyl nuclear accident site, it does not mean there were no wildlife ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of Earth’s most haunting yet paradoxical places, where death and life intertwine in ...

On April 26, 2026, less than six months from now, the world will mark the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear ...

When the Chernobyl disaster struck in 1986, it left behind one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans fled, but the ...

Dogs in Chernobyl are suddenly turning blue. While hypotheses have been theorized, there is no definitive answer to why this ...

For nearly 40 years, the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has remained off-limits to the human population, allowing nature to reclaim its territory. In recent weeks, an unusual discovery ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Chernobyl is once again a global headline, but this time for its wildlife. Recent videos show stray dogs roaming the Chernobyl exclusion zone with bright blue fur.

If you have young children, you probably won't bat an eye when they talk about blue dogs. You may have heard people mention them in passing, as the news has ...

As we age, our cells accumulate DNA mutations. If any of these mutations confer a growth advantage to a self-renewing or long-lived progenitor cell, its lineage can expand. The progenitor cells that ...