Thirty years after a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, radiation is still turning up in some unexpected places: for instance, in the wild boars tramping through the ...

Nuclear weapons testing is partially to blame for the radioactive boar in Germany, according to a new study. Michael Probst AP Though they’re known for their love of sausage and schnitzel, many ...

You read that correctly. A team of scientists just tested wild boar meat from Southern Germany and found that radioactivity in the boars stemmed from nuclear weapons testing, rather than the Chernobyl ...

Though they’re known for their love of sausage and schnitzel, many Germans shy away from one type of meat: home-grown wild boar. The tusked animals, which roam the mountainous region of Bavaria, are ...