Environmentalist Hamzeh Valani

During 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.