Of the hundreds of towns that crowd Florida’s coastline bordering the broad blue sea between America and Mexico, only one has ...

MUNICH — The Gulf Coast of the United States is increasingly vulnerable to hurricanes, a scientist has warned in a new study, 20 years after Katrina devastated New Orleans and hundreds of miles of ...

Over 30 cases of flesh-eating bacteria have been reported along the Gulf Coast, spanning at least four states. The bacteria, called Vibrio vulnificus, leads to death in about a fifth of cases, the CDC ...

The Trump administration is proposing to auction offshore oil drilling leases across new portions of the U.S. coast as soon ...

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU) endangers fisheries across the globe that contribute to economic growth, ...

The term “flesh-eating bacteria” refers to bacteria that cause necrotizing fasciitis that destroys the soft tissue, particularly the fascial layer underneath the skin. Individuals with suspected cases ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally reported by 69 News on Sept. 27, 2005, a little more than month after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States. A group of ...

What started as Tropical Depression Twelve on Aug. 23, 2005, over the Greater Antilles would soon become one of the deadliest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Traveling through ...

Apart from linking some great spots in the southern reaches of the three states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, the ...

Much has been made of the deployment of U.S. naval forces in the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela, to interdict and sink ...

To date, there has been not one hurricane to hit the United States even though the season has been somewhat active. Satellite ...