The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of Chernobyl's giant shelter has been completed, three weeks after it was struck by a ...

Hutchinson just announced two fresh additions to its Blackbird lineup: the Blackbird Race and Blackbird All Season. Whether hunting podiums or grinding winter base miles, Hutchinson says these new ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

The news: Advertising tech startup Springboards has launched with $5 million in seed funding from Australian venture capital firm, Blackbird Ventures. The numbers: The startup has gained a pre-money ...

More than 120 agencies are using Springboards, while Australia’s biggest venture capital fund, Blackbird Ventures, has tipped $5m in seed funding into the company, which has a pre-money ...

that the leader of Inverclyde Council once described it as Scotland's Chernobyl - comparing the estate to the Ukrainian town of Pripyat, which has been uninhabitable since the 1986 nuclear disaster.

Ahimsa Companies has acquired the New York-based frozen pizza brand Blackbird Foods. The plant-based private equity firm acquired Blackbird Foods for an undisclosed sum on February 17. Following the ...

In an update on Thursday at 17:00 local time, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant operator said thermal imaging monitoring of the New Safe Confinement was continuing and parts of the exterior cut into ...

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now northern Ukraine. After one of the plant’s reactors exploded during a test ...

When people hear “Chernobyl,” they often think of the 1986 nuclear disaster that led to mass evacuations. Yet, the region remains home to diverse wildlife, including dogs that have become a focus of ...

A Russian drone attack hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl’s destroyed reactor, causing a fire that has since been extinguished. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy termed it a ...