Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, ...

For John B. Anderson, the Gulf Coast is personal. The W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Rice University ...

In what he called "likely the single most important thing I've done" Santa Rosa Commissioner rallies fellow board members to buy Gulf Breeze property ...

Natural shorelines in areas like the Gulf of Mexico absorb carbon dioxide, blunt the effects of climate change.

Efforts to address soil erosion and land loss focus on both preventative measures and active restoration. Enhancing natural barriers, such as wetlands and marshes, is a priority.

But the legacy of those pipelines in the Gulf could offer a benefit, too, should wind developers lay offshore wind transmission cables along existing pipeline corridors through the marshes.

Pylate is talking about the Houston area’s original ecosystem, Gulf Coast native prairie, which once ran from Brownsville, Texas, to Lafayette, La., but now is considered an endangered ecosystem ...

It goes something like this: the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the beach shoreline, the sand dunes, the coastal marshes and wetlands, the coastal prairies and eventually the bottomland forests.

Scooter Trosclair manages the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge and is working on ways to slow down erosion, and the gulf's encroachment into more populated inland areas.

Examples abound along the northern Gulf of negative consequences from the best-laid plans to tame marshes and the rivers that feed them sediment, for public safety, profit or convenience.

Unless carbon emissions decrease, sea level rise will cause northern Gulf marshes in Mississippi and offshore barrier islands to collapse into open water as early as 2070, said Patrick Biber, who has ...