<story><title>Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00774-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>&amp;quot;The Safer, a deteriorating oil tanker containing 1.1 million barrels of oil, has been deserted near the coast of Yemen since 2015...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;WTF?  That&amp;#x27;s tens of millions of dollars worth of oil.  Why hasn&amp;#x27;t someone salvaged her?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rapnie</author><text>Recommend reading the &lt;i&gt;New Yorker&lt;/i&gt; article mentioned in another comment. Makes you appreciate the complexity of the situation and full background story.</text></comment>
<story><title>Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00774-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>&amp;quot;The Safer, a deteriorating oil tanker containing 1.1 million barrels of oil, has been deserted near the coast of Yemen since 2015...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;WTF?  That&amp;#x27;s tens of millions of dollars worth of oil.  Why hasn&amp;#x27;t someone salvaged her?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>htrp</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s literally in a warzone and is surrounded by mines</text></comment>