ENVIRONMENT
A mysterious oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico
A huge oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico has spread more than 600 km and seeped into seven environmental reserves. Jorge Serratos/Greenpeace México
An oil slick has been spreading quietly across the Gulf of Mexico over the last month, but the disaster only made headlines last week, when satellite images, fishermen's testimonies and environmental reports converged into a bleak picture that could no longer be ignored.
According to estimates from Mexico, the spill stretches across more than 600 kilometers of the Veracruz and Tabasco coastlines, and has polluted over 200 kilometers of beaches. Environmental groups warn that it has reached protected reef areas, disrupted local fishing economies and threatened marine species living along the coast…
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