今夏欧洲野火肆虐，不仅焚毁森林，还将一战和二战遗留的地下武器暴露并引发爆炸。1法国、比利时、德国和荷兰等国报告了多起爆炸事件，由高温引燃了埋藏数十年的炸弹和地雷。1比利时防御部队每周大约接到一次排除爆炸物的请求，该国爆炸物处理部队每年需应对超过3000个相关电话，处理200至250吨战争遗留弹药。1
干旱加剧了这一威胁。1随着河流水位下降，斯洛伐克多瑙河和匈牙利布达佩斯玛格丽特桥进一步暴露了二战时期的海军地雷和炸弹。1比利时在一战和二战期间的高芬地区接连发生爆炸事件，二战后的前四年，列日省的未爆炸弹药造成六名平民丧生。1
Extreme heat and drought across Europe this summer are triggering explosions of buried World War I and World War II munitions, a dangerous consequence of climate-driven wildfires sweeping across former battlefields.1 Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands have all reported multiple detonations as intense fires and receding water levels expose decades-old ordnance buried beneath the soil and riverbeds.1
Belgium faces the most acute challenge, given its history as a major theater of both world conflicts. The country's defense forces respond to approximately one bomb disposal request per week, and the specialized munitions disposal unit answers more than 3,000 calls annually while handling between 200 and 250 tons of wartime ammunition residue.1 In the high grounds where intense fighting occurred during World War I and World War II, explosions have erupted in succession.1 The aftermath of conflict has proven lethal even in peacetime: in the four years immediately following World War II, unexploded ordnance in Belgium's Liège province killed six civilians.1
The problem extends beyond Belgium's borders. Drought conditions have lowered water levels in Slovakia's Danube River and at Hungary's Margaret Bridge in Budapest, revealing naval mines and bombs from World War II that had remained submerged and dormant for decades.1 These discoveries underscore how climate change is intensifying wildfire activity while also exposing hidden remnants of historical conflict across the continent.1
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