The Mississippi River watershed, which more or less drains half the entire nation, deposits a prodigious amount of silt in the Gulf. If the currents in the Gulf are running east-west, as they ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

Levels of floating seaweed mats, known as sargassum, have skyrocketed in the Atlantic Ocean in the past month, with the total ...

Trump's press secretary announced after he took office that he planned to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The AP, a wire service whose reporters span the globe ...

But the Gulf of Mexico is quietly making a crude oil comeback thanks to new technologies and cost efficiencies utilizing existing deepwater platforms. The trend continued with Chevron bringing its ...

April 10 (UPI) --The Department of Interior on Thursday released an analysis of fossil fuel deposits showing an additional 1.30 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico's Outer Continental shelf.

A federal district judge on Thursday ruled against a Biden administration sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico, faulting the government with failing to sufficiently analyze ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed two bills aimed at carrying out President Donald Trump's directive to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, according to the ...

Under HB 575, The Designation of the Gulf of Mexico, all references in Florida statutes to the Gulf of Mexico must be changed to Gulf of America. It's a long list, as it includes 53 different ...

The dispute between the AP and the White House began after Mr. Trump declared that the name for the Gulf of Mexico would be changed to the Gulf of America. In the wake of that decision ...

A massive Sargassum bloom is spreading across the Atlantic, but Florida’s beaches are likely to stay clear this season.