A body density map.

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syscom3

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I was shocked when I first read about the French "zone rouge", areas where there is so much unexploded ordnance and human remains from WWI that public entry nor agriculture is not allowed there. Even today, the zones total about 100 km^2. Also arsenic, lead and other stuff that has leached out from the unexploded and chemical ordnance has contaminated the soil. In the less devastated blue and yellow zones farmers and bomb disposal teams still dig up about 900 tons of unexploded munitions every year. It is estimated that with the current rate, they will be done in another 300-700 years!

 

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