⟳ Репост от John Wares

As you canvas everything the war in Iran is fucking up, I bet you never even thought of this one! The ships idling in the strait are undergoing "biofouling," picking up all kinds of invasive organisms that they are going to spread everywhere once they're released.

Ships stranded by war could cause marine ‘superspreader’ event, study warnsScientists warn of unintentional risks from idle ships sitting for months in the Strait of Hormuz.www.washingtonpost.com