Landmines have played a key role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian officials have described the density of some of Russia's minefields as "insane." Here are the four main types of mines, how ...

Poland has decided to start producing anti‑personnel mines for the first time since the Cold War and plans to deploy them ...

FILE - A Russian military robotic vehicle detonates a land mine on a mine clearing mission to defuse mines along the high voltage line in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of ...

Faced with a thicket of mines, tank traps, and bunkers, future U.S. Army engineers might not rush to the front. Instead, they may reach for a remote control to choose from a menu of drones and tracked ...

As Ukrainian forces slowly push ahead with their 2023 counteroffensive after more than a year of shifting battle lines, the country’s military and civilians face a deadly problem: land mines, ...

NEGAUNEE, MI – Michigan’s Upper Peninsula may be primed for a major hydroelectric future because of its underground mining past. Scientists at Michigan Technological University in Houghton believe it ...

KYIV — A human rights group says it has documented "numerous cases" of Ukrainian forces firing land mines into territory that was controlled at the time by Russia. In a new report, Human Rights Watch ...

On a special episode of The Excerpt podcast: There are thousands of abandoned coal mines all over the United States, many of which continue to be sources of toxic waste that threaten local communities ...

Sea mines are the Navy’s silent nightmare. Cheap, deadly, and incredibly effective, they’ve sunk more U.S. ships than missiles or torpedoes combined. This episode dives into the terrifying ...

A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. decision to provide Ukraine with antipersonnel land mines expands the use of a weapon that the international community has long condemned because of its danger to innocent ...

The US decision to provide Ukraine with antipersonnel land mines expands the use of a weapon that the international community has long condemned because of its danger to innocent civilians. And it ...