Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Environmentalist-Hamzeh-Valani-27MZIFLEWU0C.htmlConceptually similarShipwrecks along River KhorramGP01AT9Completed★★★★Shipwrecks along River KhorramGP0H2ECompleted★★★★Bomb Damage in AbadanGP0165OCompleted★★★★Bomb Damage in AbadanGP0ILRCompleted★★★★★★Bomb Damage in AbadanGP086BCompleted★★★★★★★Tar on Beach in IranGP0749Completed★★★★Tar on Beach in IranGP017JTCompleted★★★★★★Iranian Policeman Looking at Oiled BeachGP03LZCompleted★★★★Paul Brown taking Oil Sample from SandbankGP0U0FCompleted★★★★View AllGP019TGEnvironmentalist Hamzeh ValaniDuring the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein sent a team of engineers into the Kuwaiti oil fields and blew up hundreds of wells. Over the next seven months, more than 1 billion barrels of oil went up in flames, and Kuwait and much of the Persian Gulf was engulfed in a poisonous smoke, creating a large-scale environmental disaster. Black rain is a result from the burning of fossil fuels, sending sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide into the atmosphere, which then come back down. Environmentalist Hamzeh Valani holding an example of black rain on rock, Bushehr, Iran.Locations:Abadan-Iran-Middle EastDate:1 Sep, 1991Credit:© Greenpeace / Jim HodsonMaximum size:2430px X 3654pxKeywords:Acid rain-Aftermaths of war-Chemicals-Day-KWCI (GPI)-Men-Oil (fossil fuel)-One person-Outdoors-Pollutants-Portraits-Rocks-Toxics (campaign title)Shoot:Survey of Gulf War Aftermath in IranGreenpeace survey of post Gulf War oil pollution in Iran.