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.

Fishing regulators have scrapped a plan for stricter fishing rules amid concerns about a decline in baby lobsters in the ...

The Gulf of Maine Research Institute wants volunteers to find mussel beds hiding in deeper water just off the coast.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has responded sarcastically to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the ...

The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) employer group and the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), in a joint statement, called the agreement a "win-win" that averts a potential strike ...

The two new monuments -- the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands -- total nearly 850,000 acres, according to the administration.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of ...

The first bill filed in Maine’s 132nd Legislature is a bipartisan measure aimed to strengthen the ability of Maine ...

In an almost offhand digression Tuesday, president-elect Donald Trump idly mentioned he was going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

In a sweeping environmental decision during the final days of his presidency, President Biden on Monday banned new offshore oil and gas drilling across 625 million acres of America's oceans, including ...