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Wildfires Expose WWII Bombs Across Europe | Wilmington News
Europe’s summer wildfires are triggering a terrifying resurgence: unexploded WWII bombs and mines are detonating as heat and drought unearth them, turning firefighting into a high-stakes gamble across France, Belgium, and Germany. Once buried by mild weather, these weapons now destabilize under climate change’s extreme conditions — fires ignite them or strip away cover, forcing crews to navigate lethal landscapes. From the war-torn High Fens in Belgium to submerged caches revealed by drying rivers in France, the crisis exposes how war’s ghosts are resurfacing, merging environmental disaster…
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