The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made ...

particularly after one example was used to put out a fire at the 168 Algyo oil well in 1968. Big Wind on the ground in Kuwait, extinguishing a burning oil well. Credit: Getty Images Decades later ...

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Meanwhile Iraqi forces also blew up hundreds of oil wells, burning through as many as one billion barrels as fires blazed throughout the year. Photojournalist Steve McCurry was in Kuwait in 1991.

The embassy in a statement urged the Kuwaiti nationals to take safety precautions in the southern states namely Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee, Illinois and Kentucky. The ...