An oil spill off the Philippine coast has coated some of the world's most beautiful beaches in sludge: 'Our white sand is now black'

An oil spill off the Philippine coast has coated some of the world's most beautiful beaches in sludge: 'Our white sand is now black'

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Coast guard members clean up an oil slick on March 8 in Pola, Oriental Mindoro. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images On February 28, a tanker carrying more than 200,000 gallons of oil sank in the Philippines. Since then it has been steadily leaking oil into the sea, killing wildlife and impacting the lives of…

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