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      Oil is transferred from one tanker to another via yellow tubes.

      Red Sea Oil Spill Averted, No Thanks to the Fossil Fuel Industry

      Transnational polluters like TotalEnergies, Exxon, OMV, and Occidental should be paying the estimated $140 million cost of the FSO SAFER salvage operation.

      Ghiwa Nakat
      Aug 15, 2023

      After more than eight years of relentless effort and numerous hurdles, the U.N.-led hazardous operation to remove more than a million barrels of oil from the decaying FSO SAFER supertanker off Yemen’s coast and scrap the ageing vessel has taken a major step towards a safe conclusion.

      This momentous achievement means the almost decade-long saga is in the home stretch, highlighting the power of collective action, but also exposing the heartless indifference of the oil industry to the consequences of its actions.

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      Climate activists gather to demand President Biden stop the Willow Project with blue signs.

      The Cure for Climate Anxiety? Climate Action

      What we’re seeing is a pressing need for people to connect and become active in their communities—for the health of their communities as well as their own mental health.

      Fatima Gutierrez
      Aug 06, 2023

      I remember being a young girl, no more than 7, and older people telling me: “Sorry we destroyed the planet. Now it’s your responsibility to fix it.” At such a young age, I didn’t understand what those words meant. But it wouldn’t be the last time I heard them.

      I live in New Mexico. In my 22 years, I’ve seen our winters becoming less and less white, each summer getting hotter, and the water slowly disappearing from the great Rio Grande. It’s a story my peers in other states could tell just as well.

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      People in a small boat approach the FSO Safer oil tanker

      UN Launches High-Stakes Effort to Prevent Catastrophic Oil Spill From Tanker Near Yemen

      U.N. chief António Guterres called the initiative to transfer oil from the decaying FSO Safer to another tanker "the critical next step in avoiding an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe on a colossal scale."

      Kenny Stancil
      Jul 25, 2023

      "The United Nations has begun an operation to defuse what might be the world's largest ticking time bomb," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres announced Tuesday.

      "A complex maritime salvage effort is now underway in the Red Sea off the coast of war-torn Yemen to transfer one million barrels of oil from the decaying FSO Safer to a replacement vessel," said Guterres.

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