BBCNEWS BBC News September 1, 2021 20:51:00
Equally depressing. an oil slick covering approximately 900 square kilometres — that's the size of new york city — is drifting in the eastern mediterranean after leaking from the baniyas power station in syria. syrian officials played down the size of the spill last week, but it's feared up to 20,000 tonnes of oil may have leaked into the mediterranean. the slick had been drifting directly towards turkish northern cyprus, before strong winds blew it away from the coast and to the north. let me show you what the pristine northern tip juan pena ibanez is chief executive of 0rbital eos, which...