Following the Chernobyl accident Belarus inherited a huge territory of contaminated land, resettled villages, broken destinies of people. Aleksandr Lukashenko has regularly visited Gomel Oblast both ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ukrainian technicians are restoring electricity to the Chernobyl power ...
Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...
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 ...
As the battle for Ukraine enters its third week, the specter of Chernobyl, site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, returns to haunt us. A few hours after the Russian invasion started, early on Feb ...
Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...