China spill crews battle spreading oil

China spill crews battle spreading oil

The thick sludge coating 165 square miles of the Yellow Sea is overwhelming cleanup workers.  

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• Sea life threatened
• China's Yellow Sea
• BP tunnel makes progress

Images via the Telegraph

Sadly, the BP Gulf spill (or whatever you want to call it) isn't the only major oil spill looming at the moment. In China, two major oil pipelines exploded, sending thousands of barrels into waters off the nation's northeastern shores. The oil has reportedly spread over 365 miles of ocean, and both the company responsible for the spill and the local authorities were evidently woefully unprepared to combat it -- reports surfaced that cleanup workers, desperate to fend off the crude, resorted to using their bare hands to contain the toxic oil.

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