As if war and famine were not bad enough, an environmental catastrophe looms over Yemen.⁠

[basquebromance]

stop this madness!

Saudis warn of oil slick near decaying tanker, but offer no evidence

Yemen's civil war has turned a 45-year-old, crude-filled supertanker into a ticking environmental time bomb, but politics makes it hard to judge the length of the fuse.

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[whitehall]

Too bad for Yemen that the country doesn't have the facilities to make a freaking phone call for help to pump out or tow the tanker. It should be noted that 148 oil tankers were sunk off the U.S. east coast by German U-boats during the four years of WW2.