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“As if a giant spider is devouring the landscape”: fiber optic cable that the military uses to control drones has entangled forests and fields on the border with Ukraine. The Russian-Ukrainian war has long been called a “drone war.” The fiber optic cable that allows armies to control…

Thousands of tons of fiber optic cable have entangled the frontline

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Fiber optic cable has entangled forests and fields on the front line. What is the scale of the environmental threat?

The Russian-Ukrainian war is a “drone war,” as it has long been called. Because of UAVs, thousands of tons of fiber optic cable are piling up along the front line. It is already affecting the lives of animals: they get tangled in the transparent strands, are injured, and die. And this material, along with drones’ lithium batteries, getting into the soil could lead to irreversible consequences.

Listen to an episode about how the “drone war” is affecting nature. You can read the text here.

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