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October 13, 2021

Decaying Oil Tanker Off Yemen Coast Could Cut Off Access to Water and Food for 9 Million People
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A new report in the journal Nature Sustainability warns of an
"increasingly likely" massive oil spill from an abandoned, decaying oil
tanker off the coast of Yemen. Such a spill could further disrupt access
to food and clean water to some 9 million people - and trigger an
environmental catastrophe that would impact the entire region. The
vessel has been deserted in the Red Sea for over six years and is loaded
with more than a million barrels of crude oil - four times as much oil
as spilled from the Exxon Valdez in 1989. Yemenis are already facing the
world's worst humanitarian crisis, triggered by a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led
war.


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