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.

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.

Video shot by a passerby shows a large waterspout that formed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Destin, Florida, on Tuesday.

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...

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Researchers say this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” is larger than average.

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.

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.