Chief among them was his former protegee and eventual nemesis, Boris Yeltsin, who became Russia ... withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. But starting in November ...

A fungus at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has adapted to 'feed' on levels of radiation that would be lethal to most life forms. Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a highly resilient ...

He moved his family to the only place he could afford to start again - a one-horse town in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Despite the fact that the town of Dytyatky was ravaged by the fallout from ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study ...

Stray dogs living in Chernobyl have evolved to withstand deadly radiation flooding the area almost forty years on from the nuclear catastrophe, a new study has revealed. The so-called 'radiation ...

In a report published on Monday, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change said the adoption of nuclear power had slowed considerably since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, and global emissions would ...

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“Twenty-five years ago, Boris Yeltsin stepped down, calling on those around him to ‘protect Russia.’ Do you think you’ve protected it?” Rosenberg asked, noting NATO’s expansion and the high casualties ...

Decades after the Chernobyl disaster, stray dogs in the area have mutated to survive the lethal levels of radiation, a groundbreaking study shows. Dubbed 'radiation hounds,' these canines have ...

Boris Johnson today led a major backlash against Labour assembling a 'surrender squad' to reverse Brexit. The former prime minister, who won the 2019 election on a promise to 'get Brexit done ...

Through his close relationship with the longtime chief of staff to Boris Yeltsin, Berezovsky became part of the former president's inner circle. In 1996, he led Russia's most powerful tycoons to ...