An oil spill that has blackened beaches at a Thai holiday island was having an extreme impact on tourism and could spread to the coast of the mainland and affect the fishing industry, officials and an environmental group said on Tuesday.Tourists were pouring off the island of Koh Samet, 142 miles southeast of Bangkok, while soldiers and volunteers in white bio-hazard suits struggled to clear b
Tourists were pouring off the island of Koh Samet, 142 miles southeast of Bangkok, while soldiers and volunteers in white bio-hazard suits struggled to clear black oily sludge off the white sand.
About 50,000 liters of crude oil poured into the Gulf of Thailand from a pipeline on Saturday, about 12 miles off the coast. Read the full story.