Gulf of Mexico

A seaweed blob twice the width of the US is heading toward Florida.

Photo: Workers remove sargassum from a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, in June. Here’s what you should know. CNN…

2 years ago

How an Old Law Is Helping Fight New Plastic Problems

New legislative efforts to ban plastics are important, but a recent court ruling in Texas reminds us that enforcing existing…

5 years ago

Report: Galveston Bay Shows Resiliency, But Some Worrisome Factors

Photo: Lisa Gonzalez, president and CEO of the Houston Advanced Research Center, was on Houston Matters to discuss the findings…

5 years ago

The women fighting a pipeline that could destroy precious wildlife

Activists travel past the site where the Bayou Bridge pipeline will cross underneath the Atchafalaya river. Photograph: Joe Whittle for…

6 years ago

14-year oil spill in Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in US history

Photo: An aerial image of an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, taken on April 28, 2018. (Oscar Garcia-Pineda)…

6 years ago