Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” is a region as large as the size of Massachusetts where there is very little oxygen in the water and ocean life can’t thrive. But to find a key source of “dead zone” pollutants, you have to travel up the Mississippi River to the farm belt of the Upper Midwest. NBCLX storyteller Jalyn Henderson...

The search for nine crew members missing from a capsized lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana is continuing for a sixth day.

A small parade of rescued young sea turtles has headed into the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana — a bright note in a tough season for sea turtles.

Hurricane Delta made landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico on Wednesday with winds reaching an estimated 110 mph.

Residents of Bermuda are urged by forecasters to prepare to protect life and property ahead of Hurricane Paulette

Five people were rescued near Florida’s Gulf Coast after their boat capsized Saturday.

Hurricane Marco has weakened to a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico as closes in on the Louisiana coast, while Tropical Storm Laura has killed at least 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Two NASA astronauts have returned to Earth in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown carried out by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company

NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday completing the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit.

A tropical depression that formed Monday in the Gulf of Mexico is forecast to become a tropical storm in the coming hours, with heavy rains already causing deadly flash flooding in parts of southern Mexico and Central America.

Ten years ago, an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico

Ten years after the nation’s biggest offshore oil spill fouled its waters, the Gulf of Mexico sparkles in the sunlight and its fish are safe to eat

The new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has been confirmed in more than two dozen people working on oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said.

Scientists have discovered a mash-up of two feared disasters — hurricanes and earthquakes — and they’re calling them “stormquakes.” The shaking of the sea floor during hurricanes and nor’easters can rumble like a magnitude 3.5 earthquake and can last for days, according to a study in this week’s journal Geophysical Research Letters.

A marine biologist is reporting a sharp rise in number of sunfish stranded on Cape Cod beaches.

Although Wednesday started as another day of clouds and drizzle with patchy fog, there are changes in the weather pattern we’ll notice in the days ahead. The storm in our nation’s mid-section dropping accumulating snow on Chicago will move northeast, with the counter-clockwise flow of air around it pulling a southerly wind up the East Coast, grabbing both warmth and...

Two years after a shooter rained gunfire on country music fans from a high-rise Las Vegas Strip hotel, MGM Resorts International has agreed to pay up to $800 million to families of the 58 people who died and hundreds of others who were injured, attorneys announced Thursday. The out-of-court agreement will resolve lawsuits in at least 10 states seeking compensation...

Scientists are back from measuring the Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” where there’s too little oxygen to sustain marine life in a large underwater area starting at the sea floor.

It’s not as dangerous as you might think.

The heat wave that has been roasting much of the U.S. in recent days is just getting warmed up, with temperatures expected to soar to dangerous levels through the weekend.