Times are tough at the moment and world news may feel like we are bouncing from one negative story to another, so here’s ...

Some consider rats, not to be confused with mice, as pests. Others deem them lifesavers. One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and ...

Former conflict zones are littered with land mines, a type of controversial concealed weapon designed to kill or maim anyone who walks or drives over them. For humans, finding these hidden explosives ...

Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but a rat called Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that.

Elizabeth Bowen Visiting Cambodia some years ago, I came upon a band of musicians busking at the side of the road. The dozen ...

Ronin the African giant pouched rat set a new world record for the most landmines detected by a rat. Guinness World Records ...

An African landmine-sniffing rat in Cambodia has broken a world record after detecting more than 100 landmines and other ...

Ronin named Rat has achieved a remarkable world record by detecting over 100 landmines. Read more about it here.

Cambodia remains one of the world's most heavily landmined countries, owing to the deadly civil war that ended in 1998.

Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has tracked down 109 landmines and 15 other potentially deadly war remnants since his ...

A Westmeath woman has expressed her surprise and pride after a landmine-hunting rat that she adopted in Cambodia set a world ...

APOPO has a program where it teaches African giant pouched rats to sniff out the chemicals in abandoned mines and other weapons left behind in periods of war, according to Guinness World Records.