President Trump recently changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Does it really matter?

Let’s get it out front that here at The Hayride, we’re generally fans of diversion projects which move Mississippi River ...

Crews had collected more than 60,700 gallons of oily product through Friday, enough to fill two and a half sizeable backyard ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast that was devastated by ...

In the third installment of “WWL Investigates with David Hammer: The BP Oil Spill,” investigative reporter David Hammer ...

The University of Southern Mississippi has had researchers involved since the early stages of the 2010 disaster.

April 20, 2010, 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, an explosion on an oil rig would change life along the Gulf of America ...

David Hammer’s second episode explores the lasting environmental and economic damage from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster ...

In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded​ in the Gulf.

In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the Gulf Coast when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded offshore, causing 134 ...

Commercial fishermen in the Gulf are still grappling with the effects of the BP oil spill, 15 years later. Photo courtesy of ...