Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands since the 1930s. A Baton Rouge Magnet High student is studying the ...

Along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, where the range between high and low tide is small compared with the East Coast, wetland grasses grow at heights just a bit above the average daily water level.

A Florida state senator has filed a bill to make the newly official name "Gulf of America" consistent throughout state statutes.

As New Orleans cleans up from the Super Bowl, we are nearing the 15th anniversary of another big mess. The largest oil spill ...

Indeed, peer-reviewed research published by Tulane University in 2022 concluded that emission-caused sea level rise will ...

Other references to the Gulf of Mexico show up in laws dealing with issues such as coastal construction, tourist-development taxes, the definitions of water management districts and an agreement ...

Five southern states border the Gulf of Mexico. Their coastal shorelines combine to ... The region is home to a wide array of beaches, estuaries, wetlands, and bays. All told, over 17,000 miles ...

In the wake of the recent oil spill off the Louisiana coast, the Gulf of Mexico finds itself grappling ... like seagrass meadows and coastal wetlands, which play a critical role in carbon ...

According to data from the United States Geographical Survey, Louisiana lost approximately 1,866 square miles of coastline ...