Gulf of Mexico

The U.S. Coast Guard spent hours Thursday searching the waters off Louisiana for four people on board a helicopter that crashed while departing an oil platform.

It’s not clear how or when the 28-year-old man went overboard, but Coast Guard officials thought of his rescue as a Thanksgiving miracle.

Rapidly strengthening Hurricane Ian will impact Cuba on Monday night and emerge into the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday on a now high confidence forecast track that keeps the eye of the tropical cyclone well away from South Florida.

Video shot by a passerby shows a large waterspout that formed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Destin, Florida, on Tuesday.

NBC 6’s Angie Lassman has the latest update on what could be the first named Atlantic storm of the 2022 hurricane season.

With the first day of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season coming Wednesday, forecasters are keeping their eyes on a potential system in the Gulf of Mexico that could make for a wet weekend in South Florida. The National Hurricane Center reported Tuesday that an area of low pressure could develop near the Yucatan Peninsula partially related to the remnants of…

NBC 6’s Adam Berg has the latest on what could be the first storm to hit Florida in the 2022 hurricane season.

A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, saying the Biden administration did not adequately take into account its effect ongreenhouse gas emissions.

Police in Florida have arrested a 29-year-old man on manslaughter charges in connection to the death of an older man whose body was found floating offshore earlier this month in the Gulf of Mexico. Clearwater police say Shane Dugan was on a boat with 48-year-old Lonnie Wilson on Dec. 3 when the two men began arguing. Detectives say that at…

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a 200-day space station mission

In the wake of Hurricane Ida, Tropical Storm Nicholas has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and the National Hurricane Center has issued tropical storm warnings and watches for the coasts of Northeastern Mexico and Texas. Tropical Storm Nicholas is about 130 miles (205 km) northeast of Veracruz, Mexico about 405 miles (650 km) south-southeast of the mouth of the…

Nicholas strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Monday as it headed toward landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast and it was expected to bring heavy rain and floods to coastal areas from Mexico to storm-battered Louisiana.

Houston-based Talos Energy said in a statement that its oil spill response contractor had installed the containment dome Monday evening, allowing for the recovery of the oil.

Divers at the site of an ongoing oil spill that appeared in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida have identified the apparent source as a one-foot diameter pipeline displaced from a trench on the ocean floor and broken open.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday that cleanup crews are responding to a sizable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Ida