Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned ...

Environmentalists said the fossil fuel sales would put wildlife in the Gulf at an higher risk of dying in oil spills. Spills ...

Thousands of marine and land species — 39% of all marine mammal species, 891 types of fish, 154 shore bird species, 115 reptiles species and five types of sea turtles, including the 2,000-pound ...

In the waters off Isla el Pardito, where rocky reefs meet mangrove swamps in Mexico’s Gulf of California, marine biologists ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to ban the Associated Press from certain news events and locales for sticking with “Gulf of Mexico” as the primary title for the large body of water between Florida ...

When scientists compared what California sea lions eat in the Channel Islands (U.S.) and the Gulf of California (Mexico), they expected to find a clear explanation for why populations were booming in ...

All nine of California’s Republicans voted Thursday to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. All of the state’s Democrats voted no. The House voted for the renaming by a 211 to 206 majority.

A lawsuit claims the Trump administration has broken laws with a planned sale of 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas interests.

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is receiving a high number of e-mails expressing great concern for the possible extinction, in the near future, of the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise ...

The vaquita, found in the northern Gulf of California, is the most endangered marine mammal species in the world. Illegal ...