Many of the wild boars roaming across central Europe are so radioactive that they are dangerous to eat, and it's down to a combination of nuclear weapons testing and the Chernobyl disaster. Previously ...

A mountainous area in Germany is now home to a somewhat unusual phenomenon: wild boars that have been turned dangerously radioactive by atomic bomb fallout from more than six decades ago. These ...

A German nudist had the last laugh after giving chase to a wild boar that had run off with a bag containing his laptop. Pictures posted on social media show the naked man running after a sow and her ...

Shaggy-haired, tusked pigs roam free in the woods of Germany and Austria. Although these game animals look fine, some contain radioactive cesium at levels that render their meat unsafe to eat.

BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - A small-town German butcher said on Monday he faces steep bills after a wild boar tore through his shop in an hour-long rampage but will at least recover some of his losses by ...

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 ...

Wild boars have become so radioactive that German hunters aren’t even bothering to pursue them anymore. And while the prevailing theory has been that the Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown in 1986 is ...

HAMBURG, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The German farmers' association DBV on Thursday called for a corridor free of wild boar to be created along Germany's border with Poland. That followed the confirmation of ...

It was a solemn moment. The bugler stood with his back to the assembled company, facing the long red rays of the setting sun that slanted down the cathedral aisle of black pines. The golden notes rang ...