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A report published last month found that an unusually high number of bottlenose dolphins have been dying all along the Gulf Coast since February 2010.…
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One person has been killed and three injured in an explosion on an offshore oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico.Officials say the platform is 12…
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A scientist who has studied the low-oxygen dead zone off the Louisiana coast for 30 years says it’s still about the size of Connecticut.Nancy Rabalais of…
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Scientists are getting a crystal-clear look at two historic vessels almost a mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico.Pictures were taken from a pair of mini-subs…
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Researchers are expecting the low-oxygen “dead zone” that forms every year in the Gulf of Mexico to remain about the same size.The Louisiana Universities…
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Natural gas is no longer escaping from a blown-out oil rig off the Louisiana coast. Only a small flame is burning off residual gas in the pipeline.Federal…
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The Coast Guard says natural gas is leaking from a well at a production platform in the Gulf of Mexico 74 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, La.Chief Petty…
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Commercial fishermen have the highest rate of on-the-job fatalities of any occupation in the country. The winches that shrimpers use to pull in their nets pose particular hazards, an analysis of deaths and injuries finds.
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This article has been updated.A natural gas well in the Gulf of Mexico, located approximately 50 miles east of Venice, is releasing gas uncontrolled and…
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The fire that broke out on a Gulf of Mexico oil platform this morning after an explosion has been extinguished, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.The fire…