Texaco’s operations in Ecuador turned a pristine rainforest into one of the world’s most contaminated sites. The impact of the “Amazon Chernobyl” still haunts the region.

The timing is sensitive as the incident comes against the backdrop of the Munich Security Conference, a gathering of world ...

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The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic wasteland. After the infamous 1986 ...

A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, briefly starting a fire, in an attack ...

“We’re getting closer and closer to possible disaster as attacks now continue on Chernobyl, and the war is going on in the vicinity of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” he says ...

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now northern Ukraine. After one of the plant’s reactors exploded during a test ...

KYIV - A Russian drone caused significant damage to the radiation containment shelter at the Chernobyl nuclear power ... levels remained normal after the incident, which came as top U.S ...

After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage of the world’s worst nuclear accident. The breach at the Chernobyl ...

Construction on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began in ... and reports were lost when the Soviet Union broke up. After the disaster, an 18-mile radius known as the “Exclusion Zone” was ...