^This picture shows you a visualization of all of the worst oil spills
As we learned in week two, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was an environmental disastor. In this article we find out how bad that disaster was compared to other ones. Here is a list of the 13 largest oil spills in history! I found this fact in the article especially interesting:The worst oil spill in history wasn't an accident — it was deliberate. During the Gulf War, Iraqi forces attempted to prevent American soldiers from landing by opening valves at an offshore oil terminal and dumping oil from tankers. The oil resulted in a 4-inch thick oil slick that spread across 4,000 square miles in the Persian Gulf. In this article we learn about the 13 largest oil spills in history and how much land they effected and how it damaged the environment. This just goes to show how disrupting oil spills really are.
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