Lithuania: Environmental chaos due to munitions buried at sea

More than 300.000 chemical and conventional weapons, dating back to World War I and II, have turned the Baltic Sea. The munitions corroding on the seabed are causing cancer in local fish and seafood populations, also posing a risk to people consuming them. Experts warn that climate change could cause the weapons to corrode faster, compounding the problem. Lithuanian authorities have so far been slow to solve the problem, to this end Brussels hopes to start a common project to facilitate data collection and exchanges among experts on how best to remove the old ammunition.