Hurricane season peaks on September 10. Here's where things stand from the season's outlook to current ocean temperatures.

There is no immediate hurricane threat in South Mississippi. But forecasters said warm water can act like fuel on a fire.

Very warm waters, steering currents and other factors point to the Gulf of Mexico as the main area of concern for tropical ...

In May of this year, satellites captured a staggering view from space: 37.5 million metric tons of floating brown seaweed ...

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are transforming our knowledge of the Loop Current, the dominant physical ...

Critical wildlife habitats are exposed to pollution risk in the seas off the southern United States, with implications for ...

"In October, storms are more likely to come from the south and curve over the peninsula. The Gulf is exceptionally warm this year, so a normal late September and/or October is very possible by storms ...

The Gulf of Mexico represents a dynamic and complex marine environment where the interplay of large-scale ocean currents and mesoscale eddies drives significant regional variability. At the heart of ...

Schematic representation of deep GoM ventilation, representing the upwelling and transformation of North Atlantic Deep Waters into intermediate water layer, which forms an outflow from deep Gulf.

Since 2011, a monstrous structure has taken shape in the Atlantic Ocean almost every year, sprawling from the West African ...

Alabama lawmakers moved closer to renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Wednesday. The Alabama House Ports, Waterways and Intermodal Committee, voting along party lines, approved HB247 ...