VidsHive News — Satellite imagery has captured vast, dark oil slicks spreading across the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf, highlighting a mounting environmental disaster resulting from the ongoing US war on Iran.
The conflict, which began in February, has turned one of the world's busiest oil shipping lanes into a battlefield. Throughout October, numerous oil tankers traversing the waterway were struck by missiles or sea mines, causing crude oil to spill directly into the sea.
Eight months into the hostilities, the resulting pollution has drifted across the Gulf to contaminate regional coastlines. Conservationists warn that the hundreds of spills since February pose a severe, generational threat to fragile marine ecosystems, endangering local populations of dolphins, sea turtles, and numerous fish species.
