A bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America for purposes of state government in Alabama moved closer to becoming law Wednesday after several Democratic lawmakers questioned the need. The ...

Scientists have captured a rare view of one of the ocean's least understood whales—without ever seeing it. By listening to ...

Officials will accept bids on more than 80 million acres in the outer continental shelf ahead of the March 11 sale.

Historians and observers accused the Trump administration of trying to rewrite American history to justify its own foreign ...

El Bosque is a former fishing village on Mexico’s Gulf Coast that has been abandoned because of rising sea levels. This is not uncommon in some places around the world, but it was the first time to ...

Researchers tracked a massive great white shark swimming off the Mississippi Coast on Friday, just weeks after the animal ...

If added to the Endangered Species List, the shark would be the first granted protections under the current Trump ...

El Bosque, along Mexico’s Gulf Coast, was once a thriving fishing village — until the water started rising. Now, its residents have been forced to flee their homes because of more extreme weather and ...

The plan would open up a massive amount of waters to new oil and gas drilling and would be detrimental to marine life.

In October 2025, researchers at the marine research group OCEARCH tagged a 1,000-pound juvenile female great white in Nova Scotia’s Mahone Bay. The shark, whom scientists dubbed Ernst, has been making ...

The United States secured the third-largest territorial acquisition in its history after a U.S. diplomat defied the president who appointed him.

On February 1, 2026, in Heroica Veracruz, Mexico, @Dr_Spacex shared a video capturing unusual and striking scenes over the Gulf of Mexico during a major cold snap. In the video, recorded around 6:37 a ...