Free-roaming boars in the woods of Austria and Germany have levels of radioactivity that makes their meat unsuitable for eating. Once thought to be the result of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant ...

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 ...

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 ...

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake — the largest ever recorded in Japan — generated a tsunami that devastated the island nation. The tsunami also triggered an accident at a nuclear reactor ...

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 ...