Gulf of Mexico

Nearly half of known Gulf of Mexico worker fatalities didn’t fit the agency’s reporting criteria

Much like the year that contains it, the 2020 hurricane season refuses to let up.Yet another tropical depression has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and…

It’s widely known that Louisiana’s coast is disappearing, for a number of reasons — subsidence, the erosion of oil and gas canals, and rising seas. But up…

A bill that could increase the amount of royalty money Louisiana gets from offshore oil and gas drilling advanced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.The bill,…

It’s only midmorning, but shrimper Thomas Olander is already calling it quits for the day in a small bayou in St. Mary Parish, on the central Louisiana...

A new report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says sea levels are rising twice as fast as they used to. They’re also warming up and…

This year’s dead zone is the eighth largest on record in the Gulf of Mexico, though it’s size could have been impacted by Hurricane Barry last month.The…

The flooding Mississippi River is taking a major toll on Louisiana’s commercial fisheries.Many of the state’s fisheries, like shrimp and oysters, need a…

The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is predicted to be the second biggest in history, according to a new forecast from the Louisiana Universities Marine…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a “near-normal” hurricane season this year. NOAA’s 2019 hurricane season outlook, released…