#landmines — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #landmines, aggregated by home.social.
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Una mina risalente alla guerra Iran-Iraq ha gravemente ferito un civile impegnato nello spegnimento di un incendio boschivo nell’area di Markhil, nella contea di Paveh. L’incidente è avvenuto il 31 agosto 2026. Le mine rimaste nelle province di confine continuano a uccidere e ferire residenti, attivisti ambientali e kolbar.
#Iran #Kurdistan #Paveh #Landmines #IranIraqWar
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Oh, the irony! An article promising life-or-death revelations on #cancer rates among sky warriors, but wait... 🚫✈️ First, jump through hoops to enable #JavaScript and cookies. Because clearly, reading about cancer should feel like dodging tech land mines. 🖥️💥
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2852504 #irony #skywarriors #techstruggles #landmines #HackerNews #ngated -
#PlasticPollution in #ShootingRanges and warfare areas - an overlooked #environmental issue
Andrés Rodríguez-Seijo, et al. 15 July 2026
Abstract
"Shooting ranges and military training fields, including warfare-impacted areas, have been widely recognized as environmentally impacted zones by inorganic and organic #contamination, such as #HeavyMetals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or explosive-related compounds. However, the possible contamination by #plastics and #microplastics in soil has been widely overlooked despite potential plastic sources, such as #ShotgunCartridges, #PlasticWads or #landmines. Due to how these activities occur, plastics have remained in the field for decades or centuries, favoring their conversion from macro to microplastics, polluting the soil and water resources. Moreover, shooting and recreational activities such as #airsoft or #paintball practices could also be a substantial source of plastics to ecosystems; once shot, pellets can have conventional or biodegradable plastics in their composition, and there left in the environment, favouring impacts on soil properties. Although some initiatives have emerged to avoid the use of single-use plastics in shotgun ammunition, alternative materials (biodegradable plastics) can also be a potential risk, favouring the heavy metal bioavailability of shot pellets. These emerging pollutants should also be considered in these areas to understand if they could be a potential source of micro- and nanoplastics to the environment and, therefore, an environmental concern that requires changes at industrial and regulatory levels."Read more:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935125008771#EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredBirds #AmmunitionPollution #ProtectNature
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Il 9 giugno 2026 Peyman (Shirko) Rahmanpour, 21 anni, originario di Saqqez, ha perso la vita nell’esplosione di una mina antiuomo mentre pascolava il bestiame in una zona di confine del Kurdistan iraniano. A decenni dalla fine della guerra Iran-Iraq, mine e ordigni inesplosi continuano a mietere vittime tra la popolazione civile.
#PeymanRahmanpour #Kurdistan #Saqqez #Iran #Landmines #IranIraqWar
https://hanahr.org/en/news/a-21-year-old-resident-of-saqqez-killed-by-a-landmine-left-over-from-the-iran-iraq-war/ -
Magawa the Rat: Life-Saving Landmine Detection in Cambodia
📰 Original title: A Heroic Rat: Magawa and His Historic Work Detecting Landmines in Cambodia
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/magawa-the-rat-life-saving-landmine-detection-in-cambodia/?redirpost=a7186b4a-de97-445f-b214-7d901ebdacf4&utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait
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Special steel tractor wheel designed for a mine clearing tractor that can withstand anti-personnel mine detonations.
These are based on the pretty cool LOCOSTRA (low-cost tractor) design by Italian micro-manufacturer Pierre Trattori.
The tractor comes with a remote control for obvious reasons.
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#Ukraine #Prince_Harry #landmines #unexploded_bombs #Halo_Trust #spotter_drones #robot_dogs #vr #VirtualReality
Prince Harry 'does a Diana' as he walks through minefield after Trump criticism - Daily Star
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/prince-harry-does-diana-walks-37065909 -
India's blood-soaked six-decade Maoist insurgency may be over, but a lethal legacy remains: hundreds of crude land mines planted by the rebels along forest tracks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/22/asia-pacific/maoist-land-mines-india/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #india #southasia #landmines
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Cambodia just immortalized a #rodent with a #statue, proving once and for all that sniffing out #landmines is the pinnacle of rat #achievement. 🎖️🐀 Apparently, humans are so desperate for heroes that even a rodent can get a monument. 🤔🏆
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo #Cambodia #Heroic #HackerNews #ngated -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116357917815425827
It’s important to recognize the persistence and toxicity of war materiel from mid 20th century conflicts.
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#Magawa was a southern giant pouched #rat born at Sokoine University of Agriculture in #Tanzania in 2013
Magawa was trained by #APOPO, the #Belgium nonprofit that trains #rats and dogs to detect #mines
In #Cambodia Magawa became the most successful #landmine sniffing rat ever, clearing 23 hectares/56 acres, detecting 71 #landmines and 38 other explosives
Magawa died in 2022
On April 3, for International #Mine Awareness Day, Cambodia honored Magawa with a stone statue
https://cambodianess.com/article/cambodia-honors-mine-sniffing-rat-magawa-with-statue-in-siem-reap
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"Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years
The land mines were photographed outside Shiraz, a city located about three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites.
Images posted to social media Thursday show what experts said are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran, in what appears to be the first instance in more than two decades of American forces using the weapons.
The photos show American BLU-91/B anti-tank land mines, which are released from an aircraft as part of the Gator mine scattering system, according to four munitions experts who reviewed the imagery at The Washington Post’s request. The United States is the only party in the Iran war known to possess the system.
The land mines were photographed outside the city of Shiraz, around three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites. Mobile launchers are often positioned near such sites to access missiles, and the land mines could have been intended to make it more difficult to do so, experts said."
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A new era of humane landmines!
https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/1858466/a-new-era-of-humane-landmines
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Researchers are combining drones and AI to make removing land mines faster and safer. #ArtificialintelligenceAI #Drones #Landmines #Technology
https://iwpost.com/researchers-are-combining-drones-and-ai-to-make-removing-land-mines-faster-and-safer/?fsp_sid=3614 -
On the off chance you’re hoping for good news today, after a 31-year effort costing €1.2 billion, #Croatia is free of #landmines: https://glashrvatske.hrt.hr/en/domestic/croatia-declared-free-of-landmines-after-31-years-12593533
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🚀 BREAKING NEWS: #Croatia finally ditches its explosive #yard #sale after 31 years! 🎆 Just a casual billion euros and 208 lives later, they've mastered the art of delayed gratification. Who knew "landmine-free" was today’s hottest real estate buzzword? 🏡💥
https://glashrvatske.hrt.hr/en/domestic/croatia-declared-free-of-landmines-after-31-years-12593533 #Landmines #RealEstate #BreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
https://glashrvatske.hrt.hr/en/domestic/croatia-declared-free-of-landmines-after-31-years-12593533
#HackerNews #Croatia #Landmines #Free #31 #Years #Peaceful #Future #Humanitarian #Efforts
