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By Burning Nearly Seven Hundred Oil Wells Before Leaving Kuwait in 1991, Iraqis Literally Dropped the Temperature in the Middle of the Desert.
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In 1991, the Iraqi army set fire to nearly seven hundred oil wells in Kuwait by withdrawing. This burnt earth policy created a spectacular climate phenomenon: the sky darkened to the point that the daytime temperature fell in the middle of the desert. It took nine months and teams from around the world to extinguish the last fire. More
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