The Gulf of Mexico represents a dynamic and complex marine environment where the interplay of large-scale ocean currents and mesoscale eddies drives significant regional variability. At the heart of ...

Critical wildlife habitats are exposed to pollution risk in the seas off the southern United States, with implications for human health and food security. "Most of the pollution comes from rivers and ...

Update: As of 2 p.m. Sunday, Hurricane Priscilla has formed in the Pacific Ocean off of Mexico’s southwestern coast. Priscilla is moving slowly toward the north-northwest, and maximum winds have ...

For the last 15 years, a massive belt of algae has been growing, from space it looks like a giant brown ‘ribbon’ connecting the West Coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. Once confined only to the ...

Gulf temperatures are slowly on the rise, but it's not doing much to Texas' chances for an active hurricane season. The Gulf of Mexico is starting to see above-normal temperatures in August, according ...