Dogs are humanity's best friend, and this is partially because we've bred them to better suit our preferences and needs. The Alaskan Malamute and Komondor, for example, were intentionally bred to ...

Following the Chernobyl accident Belarus inherited a huge territory of contaminated land, resettled villages, broken destinies of people. Aleksandr Lukashenko has regularly visited Gomel Oblast both ...

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...

When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to leave everything behind, including their pets. Today, they're known as ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...

As a blue coach pulls up outside Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, friendly stray dogs approach it. It has passed through multiple Ukrainian military checkpoints—necessary since Russian troops briefly ...