Germany Takes Ocean Cleanup to New Depths: Revolutionary Plan to Recover WWII Munitions from North Sea and Baltic Waters
Nice, France — An estimated 1.6 million metric tons of conventional munitions are buried in Germany’s coastal waters, with the North Sea housing the majority and the Baltic Sea holding the remainder. Among these remnants of World War II are also thousands of tons of chemical weapons, many of which have been largely overlooked for decades. The issue presents a growing environmental and health concern, spurring officials to take a new approach. At the recent …