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Young boys with white sheep turned black from oil, smoke and rain from oil well fires near Umm al-Haiman, south of Ahmadi, Kuwait in March of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.

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Pollution, Kuwait, Kuwait Oil Well Fires
Young boys with white sheep turned black from oil, smoke and rain from oil well fires near Umm al-Haiman, south of Ahmadi, Kuwait in March of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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