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English: On 15 July 2020, the United Nations warned that an abandoned oil storage and offloading tanker, the FSO Safer, moored off the coast of Yemen and laden with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil, is at risk of leaking oil or of being caught in cross fire from the ongoing civil war. According to the UN Environment Programme, an oil spill would cause massive environmental damage to marine life, desalination factories and international shipping routes. FSO Safer carries four times more oil than the Exxon Valdez which caused an unprecedented ecological catastrophe in Alaska in 1989. This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 29 June 2020, shows the tanker moored 23 km southeast of As Salif, in the Red Sea. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission is a constellation of two twin satellites, Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B. The first satellite, Sentinel-2A has been launched in 2015, while the launch of Sentinel-2B took place in 2016: their revisit time is 5 days, a value that is considerably lower than the one of other medium to high resolution optical satellite constellations. Its imagery, accessible on a full, free and open basis, enables regular and global monitoring of environmental phenomena and emergency situations.