“We found land to settle. Now the land near Chernobyl is our home.” He adds: “My friends and family often ask ‘'What’s with the radiation?’ I tell them not to worry.” Vadym is so at ...

Chernobyl's "Red Forest" - one of the most radioactive ... Fixed-wing craft are first used to make a general radiation map by flying at about 40mph (65km/h) just above the treetops, in a grid ...

The Chernobyl disaster zone is a deeply mysterious location and has made for an excellent setting for many intense and ...

Inside one of the most radioactive reactors in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a fungus is absorbing deadly radiation. A black fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum has been found growing ...

Deadly radiation from Chernobyl is being absorbed by fungus growing inside the reactors (Picture: Getty) Inside one of the most radioactive reactors in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ...

Forest fires that have been burning for several days in northern Ukraine are now no more than a few kilometres from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant, reports say. Tour operator Yaroslav ...