In November, we posted about how a drought on the Rhine River was exposing unexploded World War II munitions, and then in December about the evacuation of half of the German city of Koblenz, when several large bombs were found buried in the riverbank.
This morning, we understand that officials are evacuating 1,000 residents in an area near the French Mediterranean port of Marseille in order to remove a one ton German bomb dating from WWII which was uncovered last week by construction workers.
This is only the most recent unexploded WWII bomb discovered in Marseille. In December, a 250 kilogram American bomb, apparently dropped on the occupying Germans, was also discovered and defused near the old port.
Marseille clears port to remove 1-ton World War II-era bomb left by Germans
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The US Navy wants to install a $100 million offshore training range, which would include an undersea array of cables and sensors for training warships, submarines and aircraft about 50 miles off the Atlantic coast of southern Georgia and northern Florida. Environmentalists are seeking to block the project, saying it’s too close to waters where North Atlantic right whales migrate near shore each winter to birth their calves. Right whales are highly endangered. Only about 400 North Atlantic right whales remain. A Federal judge is being asked to rule on the lawsuit filed against the Navy by a dozen conservation groups.
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