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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

A rat named Ronin has made history by becoming the first to detect over 100 landmines, earning a Guinness World Record. Read ...

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 ...

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

The rat, named Ronin, was named APOPO's most successful Mine Detection Rat. He also was acknowledged by the Guinness World Records. Since August 2021, Ronin has detected 109 landmines and 15 items ...

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