25 July 2010 - After vuvuzula and octopus, there is another word dictating the headlines this summer: oil spill. We hear a lot about the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but less so about the oil slick close to Dalian in China following a pipeline explosion at the port of Xingang. About 1,500 tons of crude oil leaked into the sea; the biggest oil spill ever reported in China. Authorities mobilized thousands of civilians to help with the clean-up This worker carries a bag of toxic oil sludge along the polluted beach. The picture comes from AP.
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