Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wounded have been treated. But the devastation wrought by Saddam Hussein's demented destruction of Kuwait's oil wells has only just begun. Three months after Iraqi troops began blowing up 600 wells in Kuwait, an estimated 500 fires are still burning, perpetuating the most hellish man-made inferno the earth has ever seen. As fire fighters struggle to quench the flames, a job that may take two years, the toll on the region's environment and the health of its people will continue to rise...
...intensity and frequency of the shamal sandstorms. El-Baz believes that the much heavier bombing and widespread trench digging in the latest war produced the material for even more intense sandstorms, which will combine with oil mist and soot from the fires. He argues that the heat from the inferno has created a new high-pressure system, which might push the monsoon line farther south than its normal seasonal position. Furthermore, El-Baz fears that particles in the air might seed the clouds so that rain falls over the Indian Ocean rather than the adjacent land...
ENVIRONMENT How Kuwait's inferno could cause drought and starvation...
...returned from a torturous assignment in the Persian Gulf for ABC Radio News. After weeks of dodging Scuds and eating bad hotel food -- not to mention going without a sip of his favorite fuel, Dewar's White Label Scotch -- he parachuted into Kuwait as an eyewitness to war's inferno and freedom's jubilation. He watched wide-eyed Kuwaiti women flirt with their liberators. He saw Marines reclaim the U.S. embassy. And he surveyed the surreal traffic jam of bombed vehicles on the highway to Basra. "It was nightmarish," he says, "partly because it was so perfectly familiar." Plus...
Dante would have felt right at home in Kuwait, a desert paradise that has suddenly been transformed into an environmental inferno. Across the land hundreds of orange fireballs roar like dragons, blasting sulfurous clouds high into the air. Soot falls like gritty snowflakes, streaking windshields and staining clothes. From the overcast skies drips a greasy black rain, while sheets of gooey oil slap against a polluted shore. Burned-out hulks of twisted metal litter a landscape pockmarked by bomb craters, land mines and shallow graves scraped in the sand...