China’s Oil Disaster
A series of photos from the Boston Globe’s always-compelling online photo series, the “Big Picture”, showing the oil disaster in Dalian, China. The photo below shows the rescue of a cleanup worker who fell into oil-covered water while attempting to repair a pump. Truly heartbreaking. If estimates by the Chinese government are to be believed, the spill is less than 1% the size of the BP spill in the Gulf. (See this list of oil spills and their estimated volumes on Wikipedia.)
