VOA标准英语2012--Poverty Source of Tropical Infections in Texas, Gulf of Mexico

Poverty Source of Tropical Infections in Texas, Gulf of Mexico Chagas is an infectious disease transmitted by the kissing bug. The kissing bug looks a little bit like a cockroach but it has the ability to feed on blood and it lives in the very poor q

VOA标准英语2010年-BP's Damaged Gulf Oil Well to Be Seale

Lee Witt (R) and BP PLC CEO of Gulf Coast Restoration Organization Bob Dudley at a news conference to announce Witt's hiring as advisor to BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill response in Biloxi, Miss., 30 Jul 2010 Both U.S. government and BP officials o

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama, in Gulf, Pledges Full Force Res

President Barack Obama, and LaFourche Parish president Charlotte Randolph, center, get a briefing from U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen on a beach in Louisiana, 28 May 2010 President Barack Obama inspected areas of the U.S. Gulf coast on Friday, u

VOA标准英语2012--Analysts: Iran's Threats in Gulf Unlikely to Lead to War

Analysts: Iran's Threats in Gulf Unlikely to Lead to War Irans recent threat to close the Strait of Hormuz led to a defiant U.S. response. It raised concerns of a military clash in the Persian Gulf and also raised oil prices. Some analysts do not exp

VOA标准英语2010年-Gulf of Mexico Oil Well Remains Shut A

U.S. officials say a cap on a damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have a small leak, but they say there are no plans to remove the cap from the well. Engineers are carefully studying the well for any evidence of problems. Engineers spot

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama: Cap On Gulf Oil Spill 'Good New

U.S. President Barack Obama is cautiously optimistic, now that an experimental cap has stopped oil from gushing from BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico. President says the cap is a temporary solution. President Obama says one way or another, th

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama Hopeful but Cautious on Gulf Oil

President Obama has described as a positive sign BP's statement that oil has, at least temporarily, stopped leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon well site. President commented briefly on the issue after returning from a visit to

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama to Address Nation on Gulf Oil Di

President Barack Obama and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist walk along Casino Beach on Pensacola Beach, Florida, 15 Jun 2010 President Barack Obama will address the American people from the Oval Office at 0000 GMT. The president's speech will focus mostly

VOA标准英语2010年-Diminishing Gulf Oyster Industry Strug

Commercial fishing ban doesn't stop New Orleans from throwing oyster festival David Weinberg | New Orleans, Louisiana 15 June 2010 Oyster fisherman Tracy Collins shucks an oyster on Caminada Bay in Louisiana. It is a nearly cloudless early June morni

VOA标准英语2010年-Can BP Survive Gulf of Mexico Catastro

Following a catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP's reputation in the United States has been badly tarnished. BP once stood for British Petroleum' The company rebranded itself as simply BP in 1998, but that has not stopped many Americans f

VOA标准英语2010年-Environmentalists Seize on Gulf Oil Sp

Environmentalists protest the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in front of the White House The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is turning into a major ecological disaster. But the political fallout from the spill and impact on the future of offshore drilling

VOA标准英语2010年-Gulf Oil Spill Raises Concerns in Alas

Environmental groups call for time out from offshore exploratory drilling Zulima Palacio | Washington, DC 24 May 2010 Environmentalists argue the harsh climate in northern Alaska would make cleaning up any potential offshore oil spill extremely diffi

VOA标准英语2010年-US Congress Steps Up Gulf Oil Spill Pr

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, right, and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 18 May 2010 The U.S. Congress is stepping up its probe of the Gulf oil spill. T

VOA标准英语2010年-President Travels to Gulf Coast Hurt b

President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, hidden, and daughter Sasha, walk over to greet people at Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida upon their arrival, 14 Aug 2010 President Obama and his family are vacationing on the Gulf coas

VOA英语2010年-Gulf Oil Spill Video Archive Goes Online

For the first time, all of the underwater video taken during the Gulf oil spill will be available, online, to the public. Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana is hoping those videos will help experts be better prepared for future disasters. O

VOA标准英语2010年-BP Well Capped, Gulf Oil Cleanup Conti

The Macondo well operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico has now been capped with a star adornment that commemorates the 11 people killed when the rig operating on the water surface above the site exploded on April 20. Clean-up efforts continue, though,

VOA标准英语2010年-Long-Term Study of Gulf Oil Spill Heal

This week, the British oil company BP issued a controversial report on the cause of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico four months ago. Regardless of who was at fault, the release of an estimated four million barrels of oil had a major envir

VOA标准英语2010年-Gulf Seafood Health Concerns Linger

MeTompkin Bay Oyster Company president Todd Casey packages oysters from Washington State because oyster beds shut down in Louisiana after the oil spill. Todd Casey is the owner-operator of MeTompkin Bay Oyster Company and he's got a major problem, no

VOA标准英语2010年-Gulf Coast's Asian Communities Hit Har

Hampered by language barrier, seafood industry workers face uncertain future Anna Boiko-Weyrauch | Bayou La Batre, Alabama 04 June 2010 Von Wesson (middle, in blue cap) and her fellow workers are paid by the pound of crab meat they clean from the she

VOA标准英语2010年-Gulf Oil Spill Shuts Down 50 Percent o

Fishing is going to go on whether it be on the west side of the river or the east side of the river As British Petroleum continues to try to cap its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. officials have banned fishing from the Mississippi River