IN THE NEWS - Remembering the Gulf Oil Spill, One Year Later This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 Last year on April twentieth the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded in flames in the Gu

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A 60m squid fishing boat hit rocks early this morning near Stewart Island in rough seas. Some oil started to spill from the boat. There was concern that the oil could spread to a marine reserve not too far away. Yellow-eyed penguin live in this reser

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Kenneth R. Feinberg, who was recently appointed by President Barack Obama as the Independent Administrator of the Gulf Claims Facility for the $20 billion BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill compensation fund, speaks at the Economics Club in Washington, 1

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The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster comes during spring spawning season, an especially bad time for aquatic life making them extraordinarily vulnerable to the toxic effects of the oil itself, says Doug Rader, chief oceans scientist for the Environmental

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ENVIRONMENT REPORT – July 26, 2002: Galapagos Oil Spill By George Grow (Photo -noaa.gov) This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. Scientists say that as many as fifteen-thousand marine ig

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NANNING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- An oil spill triggered by typhoon Kai-Tak in the south China city of Beihai has been cleaned up, according to a local official. Typhoon Kai-Tak, the 13th tropical storm of the year, has left one dead and two missing in Gu

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