Radioactive fallout near the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in northern Ukraine has reduced populations of brightly colored birds more than those of their drab cousins, ...

Chernobyl is a scary, seemingly sinister place, where trees don’t decay and plants glow. A newly published study, however, shows that not all living things are necessarily doomed in this radioactive ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Nearly three decades since the disaster and it seems the birds living in the exclusion zone around ...

Brightly colored birds were more adversely affected by high levels of radiation around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, reports a study published online in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of ...

NOVOSHEPELYCHI, Ukraine — The clicking sound from Timothy Mousseau’s radiation detector slowly increased as he walked through the forest here, a few miles west of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. As ...

Chernobyl's radiation is more damaging to brightly-colored birds than their faded-feathered friends, scientists say. In a study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, University of Southern ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine, April 29 (UPI) -- No humans live in the 19-mile exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl, the nuclear disaster which devastated the Ukrainian countryside in 1986, but as ecologists ...

Birds appear to prefer breeding sites with lower levels of radiation, according to research conducted in the immediate vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. The study, published in ...

over the abandoned town of Pripyat that once housed nuclear workers (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) NUCLEAR AGENCY WORKER, VIKTOR KOZLOV, SAYING:"Unfortunately, I have not yet visited Chernobyl on the ground.

Scientists are focusing on Japan's Fukushima area after a study published this week found an alarming development at another nuclear disaster site -- Chernobyl. The proportion of female birds has ...

Birds with bright plumage have suffered most from radiation around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, scientists have discovered. Species that lay large eggs or travel long distances are also more ...

the researchers took feather and blood samples from 13 species In the study, researchers looked at the long term effects of low-dose radiation in bird populations near Chernobyl in Ukraine — the site ...