UN Begins Operation to Avert Environmental Disaster From Abandoned Yemen Oil Tanker

A UN team began work Tuesday to inspect an abandoned supertanker loaded with 1 million barrels of crude oil moored off Yemen's coast and start emergency salvage operations.
The decrepit FSO Safer tanker has been stranded in the Red Sea since 2015 and risks spilling its cargo, causing an environmental catastrophe.
The UN has raised $140 million for the salvage operation but still needs $29 million more to fund the full effort.
If the operation succeeds, oil will be transferred to a replacement tanker beginning in June.
Removing the oil could take up to three weeks and cost $20 billion if the tanker ruptured.