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US Coast Guard Searching for 4 People After Helicopter Crash in Gulf of Mexico
The U.S. Coast Guard spent hours Thursday searching the waters off Louisiana for four people on board a helicopter that crashed while departing an oil platform.
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Overboard Cruise Passenger Rescued After Hours in the Gulf of Mexico
It’s not clear how or when the 28-year-old man went overboard, but Coast Guard officials thought of his rescue as a Thanksgiving miracle.
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Watch: Large Waterspout Forms Off Florida Coast
Video shot by a passerby shows a large waterspout that formed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Destin, Florida, on Tuesday.
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Tropical Storm Alex Heads Toward Bermuda With High Winds
The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is headed toward Bermuda after killing three people in Cuba and flooding roads in Florida. Alex reached tropical storm force after strengthening off Florida’s east coast early Sunday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Alex has strengthened a bit, with maximum sustained winds reaching 70 mph by late Sunday. It was...
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Federal Judge Throws Out Oil Lease Sale in Gulf of Mexico
A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, saying the Biden administration did not adequately take into account its effect ongreenhouse gas emissions.
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Endangered Sea Turtle Swims Free After Long Rehab at Aquariums in Mass., Miss.
An endangered sea turtle is back in the ocean after more than a year of rehabilitation at aquariums in Boston and Mississippi. The Mississippi Aquarium released the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle named Typhoon on Thursday into the Mississippi Sound at Biloxi. Kemp’s ridleys are the world’s smallest sea turtles and the most endangered of those found in U.S. waters....
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SpaceX Returns 4 Astronauts to Earth, Ending 200-Day Flight
Among the upbeat milestones: four spacewalks to enhance the station’s solar power, a movie-making visit by a Russian film crew and the first-ever space harvest of chile peppers.
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Nicholas Hits as a Cat. 1 Hurricane Then Slows, Dumps Rain Along Gulf Coast
Nicholas strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Monday as it headed toward landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast and it was expected to bring heavy rain and floods to coastal areas from Mexico to storm-battered Louisiana.
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After Ida Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico, Divers Put Containment Dome on Pipeline
Houston-based Talos Energy said in a statement that its oil spill response contractor had installed the containment dome Monday evening, allowing for the recovery of the oil.
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Divers Identify Broken Pipeline as Source of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in La.
Divers at the site of an ongoing oil spill that appeared in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida have identified the apparent source as a one-foot diameter pipeline displaced from a trench on the ocean floor and broken open.
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Cleanup Boats on Scene of Large Gulf Oil Spill Following Ida
The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday that cleanup crews are responding to a sizable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Ida
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Gulf of Mexico's ‘Dead Zone' Larger Than Average This Year
Researchers say this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” is larger than average.
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Shrinking the Gulf of Mexico's Massive ‘Dead Zone'
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...
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Search for 9 Missing From Capsized Boat in Gulf on 6th Day
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.
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Mini Parade of Rescued Young Sea Turtles Released Into Gulf
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.
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Hurricane Delta Makes Landfall in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
Hurricane Delta made landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico on Wednesday with winds reaching an estimated 110 mph.
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Paulette Rolls Toward Bermuda; Sally Threatens Gulf Coast
Residents of Bermuda are urged by forecasters to prepare to protect life and property ahead of Hurricane Paulette
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Watch: Boaters Rescued After Boat Capsizes in Gulf of Mexico
Five people were rescued near Florida’s Gulf Coast after their boat capsized Saturday.
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Marco Down to Tropical Storm Near Louisiana, Laura Over Cuba
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.
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2 NASA Astronauts Splashdown in Gulf of Mexico
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.