An oil lake and devastated desert landscape in the burning greater Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May 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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- KUW_016_xs.jpg
- Copyright
- ©Peter Menzel, www.menzelphoto.com
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- 1024x677 / 246.7KB
- Contained in galleries
- Pollution, Kuwait, Kuwait Oil Well Fires
