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As UN efforts to stop 'FSO Safer' oil spill are thwarted by Iran-aligned Houthis, US and UK may step in to avoid catastrophe

World must unite to defeat Houthis and save Yemen Maria Maalouf Short Url Explosions erupt at Aden Airport, December 30, 2020. (Reuters) The brutal and vicious attack by the Houthis against the civilian airport in Aden last month, which killed at least 26 people and injured scores of others, while causing significant damage to that important facility and its surrounding areas, was an act of terrorism. It was a devastating blow to every sincere effort to end the civil war in Yemen by finding a political solution. Calls for the punishment of the Houthis are justified. However, more important fo...

December 16, 2020 4 min read Scientists are calling for action to remove the oil from a decaying and inactive tanker in the Red Sea that holds approximately one million barrels of oil – four times the amount of oil contained in the Exxon Valdez, the tanker that had a disastrous environmental oil spill in 1989 –  before its current seepage turns into a massive oil spill into the sea. Karine Kleinhaus A paper published in  Frontiers in Marine Science is authored by a team of international scientists led by Karine Kleinhaus, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the School of Marine and Atm...