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

London-based BP, which maintains its U.S. headquarters in Houston, made the most bids at 58, exposing $90.57 million in the ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management offered about 80 million acres in federal waters offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi ...

A tropical low pressure system continues to swirl across the western Gulf of Mexico, and it will continue moving northwest toward deep South Texas throughout the day on Friday. According to the ...

Austin’s summer doldrums roll on with a weather pattern on repeat: typical August heat, plenty of sunshine and little chance of widespread rain — or as Gen Alpha might say, we’re glitching.

A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake off Alaska’s coast Wednesday triggered a tsunami warning across a 700-mile stretch and prompted evacuations in towns like Kodiak and King Cove. Now, as a tropical ...

Explore the Gulf of Mexico, a vast body of water bordered by the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. From the bustling coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida in the U.S., to ...

High atmospheric pressure has finally arrived in the Lone Star State — and for once, that’s actually good news. High pressure leads to sinking air, which suppresses the development of showers and ...

The National Hurricane Center named its eighth tropical system of 2020 in the Atlantic basin on Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna churns in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm, which had top winds of 40 MPH ...

In the race to out-MAGA one another, Texas is now on its back foot after the Florida Department of Transportation removed all the road signs for Gulf of Mexico Drive from one beachside town last month ...

Congressman Dan Crenshaw, who represents the Houston area, is pushing forward on plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico. President Donald Trump began floating the idea of renaming the body of water to the ...

Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off coppery scales. These red drum are farmed, not wild. They circle inside a ...