Plants that detect landmines

Wired has an article on a fascinating approach to landmine detection. The plant is genetically modified to react to nitrogen dioxide emitted into the soil by immediate vicinity landmines, thereby indicating their location. Hopefully such an approach lives up to it’s promise.

This would not seem to address unexploded cluster bombs, which unlike landmines, are not banned. Unexploded cluster bombs have taken a terrible toll on Iraqi children.

Wired has an article on a fascinating approach to landmine detection. The plant is genetically modified to react to nitrogen dioxide emitted into the soil by immediate vicinity landmines, thereby indicating their location. Hopefully such an approach lives up to it’s promise.

This would not seem to address unexploded cluster bombs, which unlike landmines, are not banned. Unexploded cluster bombs have taken a terrible toll on Iraqi children.