Constant waterborne commerce at the Port of Houston, among the busiest in the United States, means accidents like this tallow spill in the Houston Shipping Channel are inevitable. The world's shipping lanes and ports are epicenters of manmade pollution, where accidental spills and deliberate dumping are commonplace.
With the area's preponderance of fossil fuel-related commerce, the semi-enclosed Mediterranean Sea is particularly susceptible to oil spills. International animosities in the region aggravate the problem. This crab is negotiating an oil-fouled beach polluted when Israeli planes bombed a power station in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2006.
Emulsified oil washes ashore after the MV Braer, a U.S.-owned oil tanker, ran aground in hurricane-force winds off the Shetland Islands. The 1993 spill emptied 93,366 short tons (84,700 metric tons) of oil into the North Sea.
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