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Chornobyl nuclear disaster

February 2023

  • A mural of Vladimir Lenin

    The Guardian view on the history of feelings: a serious subject

    Editorial: Books and documentaries can not only tell us what happened in the Soviet Union and why – but why it matters

September 2022

  • Mikhail Gorbachev in 2016

    Mikhail Gorbachev’s commitment to the environment was ahead of its time

    After stepping down as Soviet leader he devoted himself to ‘the most urgent task facing humanity today’

August 2022

  • Kateryna Polyanska, an ecologist and analyst, collects a soil sample  from a bomb crater

    Toxins in soil, blasted forests – Ukraine counts cost of Putin’s ‘ecocide’

    Environmentalists are counting the cost of Russian military’s devastation and hope to force Moscow into making reparations

July 2022

  • An abandoned ferris wheel in the former city centre of Pripyat, a few kilometres from Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

    Book of the day
    Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh review – in search of meaning in Chornobyl’s forbidden wasteland

    A Ukrainian writer reflects on the joys and costs of a life dedicated to illegally exploring the nuclear site

May 2022

  • Bob Bunce developed a statistical technique to sample Britain’s countryside that would allow him to draw conclusions at a national scale

    Bob Bunce obituary

  • Nuclear

    Poisoned legacy: why the future of power can’t be nuclear

April 2022

  • Burn-out Russian armoured vehicle with ‘Glory to Ukraine’ daubed on it

    ‘They were hooligans’: Chernobyl locals reeling after Russian invasion

  • Russian forces after seizing control of Chernobyl in February

    UN nuclear watchdog to head mission to Chernobyl as Russians withdraw from site

March 2022

  • Members of Japan’s lower house of parliament applaud as Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses them via video-link.

    Zelenskiy calls on Japan to impose trade embargo on Russian goods

  • FILE PHOTO: A New Safe Confinement structure at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is seen behind the abandoned town of Pripyat<br>FILE PHOTO: A New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is seen behind the abandoned town of Pripyat, Ukraine April 12, 2021. Picture taken with a drone April 12, 2021. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo

    Forest fires erupt around Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine

  • Nuclear composite for G2 16/03/2022

    ‘By 10, I knew all about the impact of a nuclear blast’: growing up in the shadow of the bomb

  • The Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 2021

    Chernobyl power supply cut but IAEA says no imminent safety threat

February 2022

  • Video appears to show military vehicles at Chernobyl – video

  • Iryna, 18

    The Guardian picture essay
    Chernobyl for refuge, from war to radiation – photo essay

May 2021

  • Chernobyl reactor after the explosion, 26 April 1986.

    From the Guardian archive
    Radiation high over Europe after Chernobyl disaster – archive, 1986

    3 May 1986: Mainland Europe experiences higher than normal radiation, with Poland, East Germany and Sweden bearing the brunt of contamination

April 2021

  • The abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine.

    From the agencies
    Out of a heap of broken images, Chernobyl seeks World Heritage status

  • The abandoned town of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

    Children of Chernobyl parents have no higher number of DNA mutations

December 2020

  • An aerial view of the Pripyat River within the 30km Chernobyl exclusion zone.

    Biodiversity: what happened next?
    Chernobyl fears resurface as river dredging begins in exclusion zone

    Scientists warn of threat of nuclear contamination from work on giant E40 waterway linking Baltic to the Black Sea

October 2020

  • This image released by HBO shoJared Harris (standing) in Sky Atlantic’s Chernobyl. ws Jared Harris, standing, in a scene from “Chernobyl.” On Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, Harris was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actor in a limited series or TV movie for his role. (HBO via AP)

    Chernobyl hooked UK viewers more than any other drama, finds research

    Series about reactor explosion kept more of its audience to the final episode than any other

July 2020

  • Paul Fusco's photo of James, a man with Aids at the Ambassador Hotel in Francisco in 1993. He had been living there since 1985

    'Unflinching humanity' – how photographer Paul Fusco united an America in pain

    From Aids patients in San Francisco to his magnificent shots of grief-stricken Americans taken from Robert Kennedy’s funeral train, the Magnum photographer captured a spirit that now seems gone for ever
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