Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates. “This superb ...

The bulk of the book focuses on the gulf coasts of five U.S. states in the 18th to 21st centuries, and Davis brings that history alive by couching it in the stories of individual people.

Because of pollution threats, global warming, and its economic importance, the Gulf of Mexico is one of the world’s most studied bodies of water, featured in some 30,000 recent academic ...

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is on track to become the worst in US history, according to the Washington Post. In 2004, mudslides caused by Hurricane Ivan sank oil production platforms owned b… ...

The Gulf of Mexico could see one of its largest dead zones on record this summer, according to researchers. A “dead zone” is known in scientific literature as hypoxia, which means low oxygen.

Despite its name, “The Gulf,” a new history of the Gulf of Mexico by Jack E. Davis, wasn’t an ideal book for the beach. It’s too heavy for vacation tote bags, coming in at nearly 600 pages ...

Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first body of water to have different names according to different countries.

President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America.". Trump issued an executive order shortly after taking office to rename the gulf, and in ...