Landmines

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• Glowing bacteria that finds landmines

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 887
  Edinburgh University engineers have a plan to use genetically engineered bacteria that glow in the presence of explosives to detect landmines. The project is student-led, overseen by Alistair Elfick. The bugs can be mixed into a colourless solution, which forms green patches when sprayed onto ground where mines are ...
  2 days ago

• Be careful while in Sri Lanka, US says

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Colombo, Nov 20 (IANS) The security situation in Sri Lanka has improved since the defeat of the Tamil Tigers but Americans travelling to the country should remain careful, the US said Friday.“The Department of State warns US citizens about the risks of travel to Sri Lanka due to continued security concerns, ...
  2 days ago

• BioBricked bacteria glow in the presence of landmines

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 600
  An alarmingly large amount of the world’s surface is strewn with landmines left behind after conflicts of one sort or another , leaving the locals at risk of death and mutilation long after the dispute that caused them to be laid down has ended (or moved elsewhere). Scouting for landmines is a risky job for humans ...
  4 days ago

• LAO PDR: We feel safer now

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  MAG (Mines Advisory Group) "I am 61 years old. It is hard for me to walk all day up a steep mountainside to my paddy field like before!" says Ten, with a smile.Ten is smiling because he no longer has to walk for a whole day ...
  4 days ago

• Become A Hit, Not A Miss Online

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 162
  As time passes, the Net is becoming a larger and bigger phenomenon. More and more people in their thousands are trying the Internet to make their American dream a reality. As great as the Internet has been for useful information, it unfortunately is also home to absolute garbage, junk, viruses, spam and useless ...
  4 days ago

• Saving millions of lives: Bacteria that light up around Landmines!

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  Landmines are arguably the gravest threat to both humans and wildlife alike in almost 87 countries across the planet and with war times long behind us the ugly scars and the undetonated landmines still haunt those who wish to put the past behind them. In countries such as Sri Lanka over 20 elephants each year are ...
  4 days ago

• Bacteria Glow Near Landmines

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 504
  From The Telegraph: Bacteria that glow green in the presence of explosives could provide a cheap and safe way to find hidden landmines, according to British scientists. The bugs can be mixed into a colourless solution that forms green patches when sprayed on to ground where mines are buried. Researchers who ...
  5 days ago

• 180 Taliban killed in South Waziristan: Pakistan Army

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Islamabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Pakistani security forces have cleared the Taliban stronghold of Srarogha in South Waziristan after an intense five-day battle in which 180 militants and seven soldiers were killed, disclosed an army officer Tuesday.Briefing reporters in South Waziristan’s largest town of Wana, Brigadier ...
  5 days ago

• Scientists Create Bacteria that Lights Up Around Landmines

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 135
  Photo via Reisendame A stunning 87 countries around the world are still littered with undetonated landmines, and their impact is devastating. Tens of thousands of people are killed or injured by mines every year, and they pose a grave threat to ecosystems and wildlife. But an unexpected solution may be on the ...
  6 days ago

• SRI LANKA: Rehabilitating the Rice Bowl

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  MAG (Mines Advisory Group) Seventy-seven families are scheduled to return to Pallaikuli village - which they fled in 2008 during heavy fighting between the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) - following MAGs clearance ...
  6 days ago

• MAG Burundi report - October

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  MAG (Mines Advisory Group) Summary, 1-31 October:- Destruction of 284 weapons at the Weapons Destruction Workshop;- Collection of 349 weapons, 224 magazines, 532 ammunition and 7,548 SAA from the PNB stocksby the MAG- ...
  6 days ago

• Digging behind the landmines

  
  Student Direct — Authority: 145
  Rhona Ezuma Long in my imagination the word ‘landmine’ has conjured up the image of Princess Diana walking in fairly outdoorsy clothing holding the hand of a young, frail looking African infant. This image draws on the tense political predicament of the ’90s which put landmines on the agenda as a ...
  6 days ago

• Landmine report says progress made, more needed

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 495
  What landmines do: an eloquent image Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Good progress has been made in reducing the number of landmines throughout the world, but much more work remains to be done, with 70 countries still having mines or explosive remnants of war, concludes the Landmine Monitor Report 2009: ...
  1 week ago

• Demining conference wins top Colombian music star

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 495
  Juanes, Cuban Peace Without Borders Concert (image: 4VFnet) Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Colombian superstar, 17-time Grammy award winning musician Juanes, is giving his voice to the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-free World that takes place in Bogota, Colombia 29 November-4 December. Juanes, who has sold more ...
  1 week ago

• SRI LANKA: Landmines, unexploded ordnance a barrier to return

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  Source: IRIN Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) are a key obstacle to the return of thousands of conflict-displaced to their homes in northern Sri Lanka, say government and UN officials.
  1 week ago

• Years after conflict, war legacy kills

  
  In the Field — Authority: 555
  HONG KONG, China – My recent interview with Aki Ra, a Cambodian dedicated to landmine removal after being forced as a child by Khmer Rouge to plant mines, reminded me of my own close brush with unexploded ordnance. A Cambodian woman walks past a landmine awareness sign near the Thai border in July 2007. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Local paramedic cycles for landmine removal

  
  Take the Lane — Authority: 125
  A Cambridge paramedic will be one of two Canadians riding in a pretty unusual fundraising bicycle event next February and March. Medics In Motion -- Vietnam to Cambodia , is the Canadian contingent that will join 40 cyclists from around the world who are riding 500 kilometres over five days to raise money and ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Longest Walk

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  "My hands had slipped twice in two days on landmines I was defusing. By the third day I thought - thats enough."
  2 weeks ago

• Report slams bank links to clusterbomb production

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  Source: Reuters * Study names banks and arms companies * Research used publicly available information (Adds names of arms manufacturers) By Olesya Dmitracova LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Leading banks have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Top banks fund cluster bombs as ban nears - report

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  Source: Reuters By Olesya Dmitracova LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Leading banks have funded cluster bomb-makers to the tune of $5 billion in the past two years despite an international accord to ban the weapons, a ...
  3 weeks ago

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