Nuclear power: how might radioactive waste water affect the environment?
Why do nuclear plants produce radioactive water – and what happens when that water gets into the ocean?
Primary Results
Five environmental disasters that we should make sure children know about
Oil spills, nuclear meltdowns and chemical poisonings should be taught in schools.
Fewer people doesn’t always mean better outcomes for nature – just look at Japan
Even with fewer people, wildlife has less space and fewer niches to inhabit.
What is ‘acceptable risk’ when planning a nuclear power plant?
Modern safety engineering follows the aphorism, “there is no such thing as zero risk, only acceptable risk”. However, calculating chances and risk is a finicky process, especially when played out against…
Mikhail Gorbachev: five things you need to know
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev played a significant role in bringing down the wall between eastern and western Europe.
Ukraine recap: US$60 billion aid package brings fresh hope to desperate Kyiv
A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
COVID‑19: a moment of reckoning for the World Health Organization
A transcript of episode six of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including a round-up editors on the coronavirus situation around the world.
Chernobyl’s frogs are living long, healthy lives
Radiation exposure does not affect the life expectancy or health of frogs living in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone.
Forget Fukushima: Chernobyl still holds record as worst nuclear accident for public health
The meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 exposed 572 million people to radiation. No other nuclear accident holds a candle to that level of public health impact.
Chernobyl’s exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity – but it faces new threats from Russia’s invasion
Chernobyl’s exclusion zone has become one of Europe’s biggest nature reserves.
Secondary Results
