Tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes and nuclear meltdowns highlight the most effective depictions of disaster on screen ...
April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.
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 ...
'We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.' ...
On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...
Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in ...
The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...
Chernobyl's past and present collide as residents and workers reflect on the 1986 disaster and Russia's recent invasion.
In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...
A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...
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