At least 57 nations have live antipersonnel land mines in their territories. In 2024 alone, 1,945 people were killed by mines, and 4,325 were injured — 90% of whom were civilians. Nearly half of those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A Russian military robotic vehicle detonates a land mine on a mine clearing mission to defuse mines along the high voltage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A notice warning about land mines is attached to a tree as a Ukrainian specialized team searches for mines in a field in ...

Rats may send some squealing, but in Cambodia, teams of the not-so-little critters have become indispensable in helping ...

Croatia was still dealing with the hidden legacy of the Balkan wars when scientists began looking to an unlikely ally: honeybees. Years after mines had been buried across fields, forests and rural ...

April 4 marked International Mine Awareness Day, in which the United Nations and non-profit groups try to draw attention to the victims of land mines around the world. Executives and investors need to ...

The country’s history of bombardment has led it to develop expertise in the dangerous, delicate business of removing these hidden threats. Siem Reap, Cambodia—Before I signed the waiver, Sophie ...

Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene Children have been crippled by land mines in Cambodia. trekholidays/iStock Decades of internecine fighting ...

When the Iran-Iraq War ended, in 1988, after eight years of combat, the conflict had killed hundreds of thousands of people, and left more than a million injured or disabled. During the fighting, land ...

Go inside a program that trains giant ‘hero rats’ to sniff out deadly explosives in a newly streaming documentary from FRONTLINE’s archives. Bart Weetjens with a baby African giant pouched rat, in a ...

HELSINKI — Finland’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to pull out of a major international treaty on antipersonnel land mines Thursday as the Nordic country seeks to boost its defenses against an ...