Strikes on Gulf energy infrastructure risk an environmental disaster. Bombings of refineries and tankers threaten massive oil spills, toxic black rain, and the shutdown of desalination plants that provide critical drinking water.


Is a catastrophe inevitable? How attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure could cause an environmental disaster

Australian energy giant Santos has been accused of covering up the details of an oil spill that allegedly led to the death of at least three dolphins off northern Western Australia (WA) coast, last year.

Australia: Energy giant Santos accused of covering up dolphin deaths after oil spill

Environmental activists are expressing concern over Rio de Janeiro's so-called 'graveyard of ships' in the Brazilian capital's iconic Guanbara Bay. One of the ships is anchored in the bay for more than six years.

Brazil: The ‘graveyard of ships’ in Rio may cause environmental disaster, says NGO

Every day Brazil's Manaus City Hall collects approximately 30 tons of garbage. This is done from rivers, canals, coasts, beaches, although the problem recurs every year usually towards the end of the rainy season, officials say the situation is only getting worse.

WION Climate Tracker | Brazil's environment threatened as tons of rubbish floats in rivers

Chile is a country in the Western part of South America and is a home to a very diverse ecosystem. Its mining could seriously harm the country's environment

Chileans fear environmental disaster due to mining waste

In what could turn into an "environmental disaster", a fuel-laden ship has sunk off the coast of Tunisia on Saturday. The ship, which was carrying diesel fuel from Egypt to Malta, had ran into difficulty near Tunisia’s coast.

Environmental disaster in making? Ship with 750 tonnes of diesel sinks off Tunisia’s coast, says official

A chemical-laden cargo ship on its way to Singapore caught fire off Sri Lanka and as a result of the burning containers it carried, tonnes of chemicals spilled into the Indian Ocean.

With cargo ship sinking, Sri Lanka faces one of its worst environmental disasters in decades

A Japanese bulk carrier that struck a coral reef off Mauritius and has leaked at least an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil passed an annual inspection in March without any problems

Your Story: Why the Mauritius oil spill is dangerous | Japanese ship | Marine Ecosystem

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