And that's the prevailing comment. The U.S.- the world - has never experienced a spill this enormous,this deep.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

Well, Bella, looks like you took quite a spill.How do you feel?

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But they say finding injured birds in the huge spill and sending out boats to rescue them will be a difficult job.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

President Obama also spoke about the difficult time people in the Gulf area were going through as a result of the oil spill.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

The first was a huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara,California.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Samples have been sent to a lab for analysis to see if there is any link to the Gulf oil spill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Ray Oelking is selling soup made with crawfish - a freshwater species that is unaffected by the spill so far.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

He is helping coordinate the government's response to the spill and spoke at a hearing on Capitol Hill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

And that price could go even higher if the oil spill in the gulf contaminates a good part of the domestic supply.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Salazar made clear there is a sense of urgency, stressing the battle against the oil spill is being fought on numerous fronts.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

A new underwater video - released as the latest hearings began - shows oil continuing to spill from the deep water well.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"So it could be a couple of years before we see the true impacts of the oil spill."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

Back on the ground, the observations are sent to a task force tracking the spill.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Oil has not been sighted at the research farm yet. A few weeks after the spill, BP placed booms around it, in a bid to protect the facility.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

"The Gulf spill is a tragedy that never should have happened." In the battle to win hearts and minds, BP's newest ad, appears to be winning few converts.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

The results produce a map of the oil spill and its path.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

President Obama says he is angry and frustrated by oil executives' response to the catastrophic spill, after a BP oil rig blew up last month off the Louisiana coast.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

The bill,which now goes to the Senate, would remove a $75 million limit on liability for oil spill damages and put a new tax on the industry to fund nationwide conservation projects.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

He says the Keys have been lucky,so far. "I hate to use the work lucky in terms of an oil spill, because someone else is having a lot of issues and we know where the environment is having issues."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

In a speech at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama referred to the Gulf oil spill in making the case that it is time, as he put it, to "aggressively accelerate the nation's transition to a clean energy economy."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Anis Baswedan a political analyst and president of Paramadina University in Jakarta, says most people understood the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf and other domestic concerns that forced Mr.Obama to twice cancel state visits to Indonesia.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

With large areas of the Gulf closed to fishing and the industry reeling from the impact of the spill, the president announced what he called a comprehensive coordinated multi-agency initiative to ensure that seafood from the Gulf is safe to eat.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14