Gulf War Oil Spills
Dong Hwan Kim
Period 6 APES
Contents
• Where did the environmental disaster
take place?
• Causes of Gulf War Oil Spill
• The effect of environmental disaster
• Efforts to ameliorate the environmental
disaster
• Final outcome of environmental disaster
Where did the environmental
disaster take place?
Causes of Gulf War Oil Spill
The effect of environmental disaster
• Damage on Oceanic
ecosystem.
• Destruction of function
as a Ocean.
• Widespread Oil belt on
earth and beach
Efforts to ameliorate the
environmental disaster
International Org
anizations(ex. Unite
d Nations or NGO)
support to get rid
of oil wastes. Also,
government is still
giving effort to cle
an up the territory.
Final outcome of environmental disaster
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