In the winter of 2015, a young male wolf left its home in the radiation-contaminated zone around Chernobyl, a Soviet nuclear plant that catastrophically exploded and melted down in 1986. The wolf ...

Gray wolves from the radioactive forbidden zone around the nuclear disaster site of Chernobyl are now roaming out into the rest of the world, raising the possibility they'll spread mutant genes that ...

In 1986, in the world’s worst accident of its kind, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant spewed a large amount of radioactive material throughout Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

Vladimir Krivenchik and his wife, Nina Skidan, are seen after hunting for a wolf near the village of Khrapkovo, Belarus. They live on the edge of the Chernobyl exclusion zone on the Belarus-Ukraine ...

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KHRAPKOVO, Belarus (Reuters) - Wolf fur grows thickest in winter, so Belarussian hunter Vladimir Krivenchik only sets his traps once snow is on the ground. He and his wife live on the edge of the ...