Oil Spill In Solomon Islands Threatens World Heritage Site
A ship ran aground more than a month ago, and a gash on its side is leaking oil. There's growing outrage that the companies responsible are not taking action to stop the environmental destruction.
For more than a month, oil has been pouring out of a large ship that ran aground in the Solomon Islands next to a fragile UNESCO World Heritage site, and there's growing outrage that the companies responsible have not taken action to stop the environmental destruction.
The Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship, called the Solomon Trader, got stuck. The island's reef tore a gash in the side of the ship, endangering as the "largest raised coral atoll in the world."
