While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...

The unique coloring is not the result of radiation, according to a scientific advisor for Dogs of Chernobyl Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 ...

Stray dogs living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone whose fur turned bright blue likely got their color from rolling in a tipped-over porta-potty, according to local animal volunteers. The periwinkle ...

Dr. Jennifer Betz, medical director for the Dogs of Chernobyl program, said there is a "0% chance that the blue color is related to radiation." In late 2025, social media users began sharing images ...

Wild images show several dogs near the Chernobyl nuclear powerplant turning blue, baffling workers taking care of them. The alarming-looking dogs — descendants of pets abandoned after the nuclear ...

Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. On ...

GUBAREVICHI, Belarus (AP) — On the edge of Belarus' Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning "Stop! Radiation," a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk.

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GUBAREVICHI, Belarus -- On the edge of Belarus' Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning "Stop! Radiation," a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk.