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UN Coordinator has urged the public to help with funding to head off a decaying oil tanker threat and prevent an oil spill in the Red Sea.

<strong>Editorial:</strong> A decaying oil tanker threatens a massive spill. The international community must seize the chance to stop it

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The United Nations has turned to crowdfunding to raise the $80 million needed to remove more than a million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker in the Red Sea and prevent a potential environmental catastrophe.

Iranian-backed Houthis have agreed to allow the transfer of the million-plus barrels of oil stored on ailing tanker FSO Safer, but emergency funds are still $20 million short

The United Nations is resorting to public crowdfunding to save a 45-year-old oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, where an environmental disaster is looming. A recent UN donor...

Faced with the need to come up with $144 million to remove oil from the decaying FSO Safer and buy a...

Yemen: UN launches crowdfunding campaign to head off decaying oil tanker threat

The United Nations is launching a crowd-funding campaign for an operation intended to prevent an aging Yemeni oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea, a senior official said on Monday.