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The FSO Safer is the name of an oil tanker that's long been abandoned off the coast of Yemen, un-serviced since the civil war erupted back in 2015. Without a salvage operation with sign-off from warring parties in Yemen, the tanker could cause a catastrophic oil spill and environmental disaster.

The United Nations has been able to raise the funds, 75 million dollars, to begin the operation designed to stop it from breaking up and leaking more than a million barrels of oil into the sea.

David Gressly, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator in Yemen and leader of the global body鈥檚 efforts on this tanker, says with the "collaboration alliance of members states of the UN...private sector...and public citizens...we're on track politically to solve this problem, we have a technical solution and now we have the funding required."

(Photo: Maxar Satellite image of the FSO Safer tanker moored off Ras Issa port, in Yemen, on June 17, 2020. Credit: Maxar Technologies via getty images)