Scientists who loaded radiation detectors onto drones have found previously undetected radiation hot-spots in the Red Forest, which surrounds the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Both men said they had witnessed Russian tanks and other armoured vehicles moving through the Red Forest, which is the most radioactively contaminated part of the zone around Chernobyl ...

Russian forces have vacated the area surrounding Chernobyl, but Ukrainian officials ... armored vehicles through an area known as the “red forest.” Drone footage showed that trenches were ...

Chernobyl’s Red Forest In the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident, a large patch of coniferous forest near the power plant turned a vivid orange and died as high levels of radiation swept over ...

This was particularly treacherous across the notorious Red Forest, where much of the contaminate top soil around Chernobyl was moved and buried, having soaked up much of the ionizing radiation.

Sergey Gaschak has experimented on mice in the Red Forest, parts of which are slowly growing ... Mary Mycio, author of Wormwood Forest, a natural history of the Chernobyl zone, points out that a ...

Last year, in a separate project, Chernobyl’s ghostly Red Forest, one of the most radioactive sites on the planet, was mapped by specially equipped drones to measure the extent of its contamination.

Indeed, such was the Russians’ ignorance that when the siege of Kyiv began faltering in late March 2022, they dug defensive trenches in Chernobyl’s Red Forest, an area so contaminated by the ...

Trenches dug by Russian soldiers are seen near the Red Forest, which is a 10 square kilometer area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant within the Exclusion Zone on May 29, 2022 ...

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is located ... This region came to be known as the "Red Forest" because the dead trees turned a bright ginger color. The trees were eventually bulldozed and ...

Both men said they had witnessed Russian tanks and other armoured vehicles moving through the Red Forest, which is the most radioactively contaminated part of the zone around Chernobyl ...

This was particularly treacherous across the notorious Red Forest, where much of the contaminate top soil around Chernobyl was moved and buried, having soaked up much of the ionized radiation. The ...