The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global safety standards decades later.

Residents of the region continue to battle health and environmental issues from the April 26, 1986, disaster as conflict rages around them.

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just at the beginning of the story of Chernobyl.

Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.

Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia have killed at least 16 people. The attacks on Sunday coincided with the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, prompting warnings about risks near the plant.

Chernobyl's worst day may have turned out to be a windfall for its wolves. As the 40th anniversary of the 1986 reactor meltdown rolled around on Sunday, scientists say wolf numbers in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are now about seven times higher than before the disaster,

These 20 pictures capture the aftermath of the infamous 1986 Chernobyl incident—effects that are, in some cases, still felt today.

Chicago Electronic Artist Turns Historical Obsession Into Music — and a Mission to Aid Displaced Ukrainians Forty

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds."