The Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone, sealed off to humans for four decades, supports more wildlife now than any formally protected nature area in northern Ukraine, according to a new study. The ...

Nuclear disasters can destroy ecosystems and leave dangerous radiation behind for decades, but wildlife does not always ...

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a radioactive landscape too dangerous for human life, the world's wildest horses roam free. Przewalski's horses – stocky, sand-coloured, and almost toy-like – ...

In 2020, Svitlana Kudrenko, then a doctoral student in nature conservation, set out to study the abundance and diversity of these animals, installing wildlife cameras throughout the 1,000sq miles ...