The"increasingly likely" possibility of a massive oil spill from a decaying tanker stranded in the Red Sea could disrupt supplies of clean water to the equivalent of more than 9 million people, according to a new study.
The FSO Safer tanker -- which contains 1.1 million barrels of oil, or more than four times the amount spilled in 1989 by the Exxon Valdez 2 -- has been"deserted" off Yemen's coast since 2015 and continues to deteriorate. A breach in the vessel, which is single hulled, would cause the contents to spill directly into the sea, said the report, which was published in the journal Nature Sustainability on Monday.
1.75 billion litres of oil waiting to be spilled into Red Sea, but any action to pump the oil out has to be totally at the mercy of Houthi rebels!. That's how we deal with potentially the worst oil spill in history. Let's start the next climate conference!
Hey, CNN - nowhere in this article do you mention who OWNS the tanker. Who abandoned it there? Why don't these uber-wealthy oil people who own it be forced to retrieve it and clean up this disaster?
Time for oil vaccines
What does the equivalent of more than 9 million people mean?
What I find so intriguing about the human condition is that, we posses the ingenuity to build a miraculous structure such as this, yet can't take the time and energy to fix this inevitable result of said ingenuity.
Comment here reveal that most people didn't read the article but the headline could have included 'the civil war is preventing this from happening'.
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