This week’s “Slick Politics” examined the Center for Biological Diversity’s concerns over the permitting process for deep-sea drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon ...

The funding for 10 restoration projects is part of cleanup efforts tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. NOAA Fisheries is set to spend more than $210 million on restoration projects in the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

An international team of researchers has been eavesdropping on an underwater symphony going on in the Gulf’s waters, and the ...

If you live around the Gulf of Mexico, you already know the significance of April 20. It’s a date with lasting footprints on the beaches along our coast, from Florida to Texas. Fifteen years ago this ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

In the sunsoaked sands of Florida’s Forgotten Coast, a simple family outing turned into an unexpected lesson on nature’s ...

Elisa Baldrighi, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the Department of Biology. She received her Ph.D. in marine biology and ecology from the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, in 2013.

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s ...