After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

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PARISHEV, Ukraine — Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the ...

The questionnaire was the fruit of an ambitious ethnographic expedition that he’d carried out from the summer of 1912 to the ...

At the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, feral cows that have settled on the grounds of a former farm ...

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As rumors spread about a possible plague outbreak in Siberia, the Kremlin turned to a familiar playbook: offering little ...