By the end of the war, 1.5 million landmines covered an area of 453 square miles, twice the size of Zion National Park in ...

Russia's full-scale invasion may have turned Ukraine into the world's largest minefield. As of March 2025, Ukraine’s mine-affected land spans an estimated 139,000 square kilometers — or 23% of its ...

Using drones makes detecting land mines safer. Using AI to fuse data from multiple types of sensors on the drones makes it more efficient.

November 25, 2025: Ukraine has a landmine and UXO/UneXplOded munitions problem. Over 140,000 square kilometers of Ukraine is contaminated with mines and UXO. These mines threaten agricultural ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Countries contaminated by landmines after years of conflict are turning to remote-controlled demining vehicles to accelerate their ...

Mofida Majzoub oversees a demining operation in Lebanon. A former wedding photographer, Majzoub switched careers to help people living in areas contaminated with landmines. (Sean Sutton) Hidden in the ...

AI-powered drones are now scanning minefields in Ukraine at a pace that manual survey teams cannot match, with one company ...

Sheltering in the basement of his family home in eastern Ukraine, Volodymyr Zayika, 71, was in the dark. Shelling had severed the electricity supply. Venturing out to check on some electrical wires, ...

BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH (Reuters) -Thai Army Second Lieutenant Baramee Sricha was on a patrol near a disputed stretch of the border between Thailand and Cambodia on July 16, when a member of his team ...

Countries contaminated by landmines after years of conflict are turning to remote-controlled demining vehicles to accelerate their clearance, reducing the threat to deminers while covering far larger ...

Hidden in the ground of former battlefields across the globe are roughly 110 million unexploded landmines — enough to encircle the planet twice. Each mine has the potential to explode long after it ...