FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 7 - Caught on Camera

Nuclear "war" may not be what we expect

How a nuclear power plant became a tool of war

Salon · Mar 1, 2023

Ohio train wreck branded 'our Chernobyl' after spewing toxic gas into air

Some residents are talking about packing up and leaving East Palestine, Ohio, US, after the train wreck spewed toxic chemicals into the air and waterways

Daily Mirror · Feb 17, 2023

Abandoned 'Chernobyl-on-Sea' in UK that's still a derelict eyesore after 12 years

The old gasworks in Hollicombe is a stone's throw away from some of Devon's best beaches but it has been left to decay despite the area being cleared of toxic chemicals

Daily Mirror · Feb 2, 2023

From radiation to water pollution to cities, humans are now a driver of evolution in the ‘natural’ world – podcast

Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes – aside from an asteroid impact or the like – that can rival the scale of change brought on by human activity. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to three…

The Conversation · Oct 27, 2022

Superhero Therapy: How one Chernobyl survivor is helping Ukrainians today

Janina Scarlet on the powers of “Superhero Therapy.”

Inverse · Oct 18, 2022

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis

Showing everyone from reindeer herders to scientists wrapping themselves in sticky tape to head into Chernobyl, this fine series traces the latterday Russian revolution that brought in a kleptocracy and paved the way for Putin

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2022

Explainer-What are the risks to Ukraine's nuclear reactors in war

Repeated shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has raised the possibility of a grave accident just 500 km (300 miles) from the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Reuters · Oct 11, 2022

Is Zaporizhzhya the next Chernobyl?

In 1986, a nuclear calamity that helped bring down the Soviet empire began in Ukraine. Could it happen again?

Salon · Oct 7, 2022

Mutant black frogs spawning near Chernobyl after changing colour to survive radiation

Scientists believe that by turning their skin black, the mutated frogs may have helped themselves to survive in the radiation-soaked Exclusion Zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant - which suffered one of the world's worst nuclear disasters in April 1986

Daily Mirror · Oct 7, 2022

Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action

The accident at reactor four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 generated the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. The impact of the acute exposure to high doses of radiation was severe for the environment and the human population. But more than three…

The Conversation · Sep 28, 2022