An oil fire in As Sidr sent thick plumes of smoke drifting across the Mediterranean Sea in December 2014.
Atmosphere Fires Human Presence
On April 21, 2010, brownish smoke fanned out to the southeast of a burning oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Atmosphere Water Human Presence
A thick black plume of smoke billows over an oil fire on a pipeline in Mexico in this true-color image from December 19, 2010.
Fires Human Presence
Black smoke billowed over the Libyan landscape on August 20, 2008, likely caused by a fire at an oil refinery.
Atmosphere Dust and Haze
A cloud of black smoke billows from a burning oil fire near Jiapur, India on November 2, 2009.
Thick black smoke billows from a fire burning at an oil depot in western India in this photo-like image taken on October 30, 2009.
Land Fires Human Presence
In recent years, oil fires have cast a dark pall over northern Iraq’s arid landscape.
Image of the Day Human Presence Remote Sensing
Fires
The northwestern tip of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico almost touches the Mississippi Delta in this image from April 29, 2010.
Image of the Day Water
On July 14, 2010, a silvery gray patch of oil stretched across the Gulf of Mexico about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of the tip of the Mississippi River Delta.
Water Human Presence Remote Sensing