Kuwait is still a very oil-rich country, with oil reserves at 92 billion barrels-a petroleum bounty expected to last into the next century. Never has the world seen so many oil-well fires-508 set ...

Just south of Kuwait City lies the Great Burgan oil field – considered the second ... allow us to capture images such as these from space, but also allows us to monitor changing places on ...

How would fighting oil fires in Iraq be different than it was in Kuwait in 1991? It's not like Kuwait over there. These are big fields. In Kuwait, it was one area and the wells were close together.

Tire fires are a nasty business, and in Kuwait ... space: A tire fire this big is an environmental disaster. It won’t just pollute the air with hazardous materials — it will create a small oil ...

King Hussein and Carl Sagan have one thing in common. Both got burned by the Kuwaiti oil fires. In November 1990, King Hussein of Jordan warned that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein might ignite the oil ...