With the ongoing war Ukraine, both dimensions of Chornobyl’s heritage significance were highly affected. From 24 February to 31 March 2022, the exclusion zone around Chernobyl – a 30-kilometre radius ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 released high amounts of radioactive material into the environment, affecting people in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Thirty plant workers died within weeks, and ...

A large area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was vacated as a result of the accident that shocked the world in 1986 was called the "exclusion zone". At that time, Chernobyl and its ...

Tribeca Film Festival in New York included a world premiere of War Through the Eyes of Animals (also known as Animals in War) ...

In 2023, Mr Putin claimed that Russia had begun moving tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus, saying it was a response to Western “escalation.” He insisted the move did not breach non-proliferation ...

Russia offered to supply Chernobyl with electricity from Belarus, a close Russian ally, which would bring the plant under tighter Russian control.

Ninety year old Galina is one of the last witnesses to the wild natural world that preceded the Chernobyl zone in southern Belarus. 'We lived with wolves' she says 'and moose, and elk and wild ...

Ninety year old Galina is one of the last witnesses to the wild natural world that preceded the Chernobyl zone in southern Belarus. 'We lived with wolves' she says 'and moose, and elk and wild ...

I moved next to Chernobyl’s deadly exclusion zone to escape Putin’s troops…locals mock my plan to make it a tourist trap Some of Vadym Minziuk's neighbours have called him a "fantasist" ...

The recent fires in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have not led to a hazardous increase in air-borne radioactive particles, the International Atomic Energy ...

A reminder, a wildfire broke out in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine on 3 September. It spread across the area of 420 hectares.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has provided Belarus with a mobile laboratory for assessing radiological threats associated with forest fires in the Polessie State Radio-Ecological Reserve, ...