ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The Environmental Protection Agency has authorized a permit to discharge 80,000 pounds of fish farm waste directly into the Gulf of Mexico from the first finfish farm ever ...

Hurricane Rafael churned over open water in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday, regaining some strength after crossing over western ...

Offshore wind energy is a major source of power in China, the UK and Germany, but there are only 19 turbines spinning off ...

About 17% of crude oil production and 7% of natural gas output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was shut in response to Hurricane ...

More than a quarter of crude oil production and nearly 17% of natural gas output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was offline in ...

The Loop Current is an ocean current that transports warm Caribbean water through the Yucatan Channel between Cuba and Mexico. The current flows northward into the Gulf of Mexico, then loops ...

Waters in the Gulf of Mexico started to break all-time temperature highs this summer, but recent weeks have seen an extra jolt of warmth — what scientists describe as a “marine heat wave ...

As water warms, it expands, thus allowing estimates of ocean temperatures that are deduced from sea surface heights. In the ...

Rafael is now moving WNW at 9 mph in the Gulf of Mexico. As Rafael continues its course, it should weaken considerably as it encounters unfavorable conditions in cooler water temperatures ...

A tropical disturbance in the Caribbean is likely to become a hurricane as it passes over Cuba and into the Gulf of Mexico by ...

NEW ORLEANS— A report released today by the Center for Biological Diversity details how pervasive and damaging offshore fracking and other extreme oil and gas extraction methods have become in the ...

The hurricane center cautioned there is "larger-than-normal uncertainty regarding Rafael's intensity later in the forecast ...