An image shared online in December 2025 was an authentic drone picture of a gargantuan octopus spotted in the Gulf of Mexico.

An 11.5-foot, nearly 800-pound great white shark’s movements mark some of the first documented tagged white sharks to travel ...

Florida's top elected officials, all Republicans, say they will work to stop the Trump administration's plan to open new areas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling.

Oil companies have offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico in the first offshore lease sale in the ...

The first project in the plan is done on the south end, and the second is planned on the north end, but making Gulf of Mexico ...

Thirty oil companies, including Chevron, Shell and BP, paid the United States Department of the Interior around $279 million ...

President Trump made a similar proposal in his first term, but after facing political pushback, reversed himself and expanded a drilling ban.

Florida's Republican-dominated congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to drop a plan that would allow ...

Every member of Florida's U.S. Congressional delegation signed a letter urging president Trump not to expand oil exploration ...

Researchers at the University of South Florida discovered a steep decline in Sargassum, despite huge swaths of it inundating ...

Crews battle the blazing remnants of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion April 20, 2010, which killed 11 workers and set off the nation's worst offshore oil disaster.

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...