Across the world, there are estimated to be over 110 million landmines still buried in more than 60 countries. According to the Mine Action Review, in 2023, there were 1,431 deaths and 5,241 recorded ...

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

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia, Belgian non-profit APOPO announced Friday. The ...

Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has entered the Guinness World Records for detecting over 100 landmines in Cambodia.

Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodia ...

The giant pouched rat has been named by the Belgian charity as its most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) for uncovering ...

Ronin the African giant pouched rat is one of more than 100 rats trained by a Belgian nonprofit to sniff out deadly land mines. Guinness World Records / APOPO Former conflict zones are littered ...

Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that. Ronin and his landmine-sniffing rat pack are making a name for rodents ...

A landmine-detecting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record to become the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines and ...

Ronin is one of more than 100 rats trained by APOPO to detect the scent of the explosive chemicals and point landmines out to ...