Decaying Oil Tanker off Yemen Is 'Looming Environmental, Economic and Humanitarian Catastrophe,' UN Official Warns
At a Glance The aging FSO Safer holds 1.15 million barrels of oil off Yemen's port city of Hudaydah.Anti-government rebels, the Houthis, have blocked access to the tanker for years.The ship could spill more than four times the oil leaked by the Exxon Valdez off Alaska in 1989. The international community must be prepared to deal with an inevitable catastrophe if something isn't done soon about a moored, aging tanker in the Red Sea with more than 1 million barrels...