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The Chernobyl and (to a lesser extent) Fukushima nuclear accidents contaminated large areas of land with low-level radioactivity. After both accidents, huge efforts were taken to decontaminate the affected areas.

An eerie clip of an abandoned fairground in Chernobyl, Ukraine, has gone viral online after a TikTok user spotted a mysterious figure lurking around on Google Maps

Lancashire’s Pendle witches is one site attracting visitors in the UK

In June, a Lithuania-based NGO named the Bellona Foundation published a report, authored by its nuclear advisor, Dmitry Gorchakov, analysing the risks associated with the hostilities around, near, or at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant based on the facility’s design, safety measures, and the local weather.

Millions of tourists once headed to the popular Ten Bel holiday resort on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, but it has now been abandoned for many years with images showing dilapidated buildings

The 10-minute video for Sigur Rós's bleak Blóðberg was directed by Chernobyl director Johan Renck

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has descibed the breach of Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam as “an environmental bomb of mass destruction”, amid warnings of the most ecologically damaging disaster “since Chernobyl”.