The Gulf of Mexico is a unique, semi-enclosed sea located between the Yucatan and Florida peninsulas, at the southeast shores of the United States. The Gulf of Mexico borders five of the 50 United States (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and...

The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. It is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United...

How the Gulf of Mexico states, from Florida to Quintana Roo, are trying to forge a pact of regional cooperation. In a world where political boundaries are being blurred by commercial development, the Gulf of Mexico presents enormous potential to citizens throughout...

A so-called 'dead zone' has appeared in the Gulf on Mexico on a regular basis, but the zone has been growing in size. The oxygen-depleted water, in which no fish can live, apparently is caused by pollution that is washed into the gulf and...

Two fishermen whose boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico survived nearly two days and nights drifting at sea before one of them climbed the leg of an offshore oil platform.The men were rescued early Friday after drifting more than 20 miles over the course...

The House approved oil and gas drilling Friday in a vast area of the Gulf of Mexico south of Florida's Panhandle and agreed to steer hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty payments to Gulf states to restore coastal wetlands and repair hurricane damage.The drilling...