What’s in a name? How much does changing the name of a body of water really matter? These are the questions that irked ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster 15 years ago and the simultaneous shale oil boom, the oil and gas industry ...

Speckled with oil rigs, fishing boats and beach visitors year-round, the identity of the Gulf of Mexico has always been clear to those who live near it, until it underwent a swift name change.

Scuba divers in the Gulf of California saw a longfin batfish, a non-native species, in a first-of-its-kind sighting, a study said. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto Plunging into the murky waters ...

Florida officially recognized "Gulf of America" as the name for the former Gulf of Mexico in state law and public school textbooks. The change follows a federal executive order by President Trump ...

(Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images) Senate Bill 1717, which seeks to rename the Gulf of Mexico, was passed with 20 out of 31 senators in favor of the bill. (Pete Garcia For The Texas Tribune ...

Louisiana's Gulf Coast can be found at the bottom of the state, where it borders the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico, which under an executive order signed by Donald Trump was changed to Gulf ...

Florida officially recognized "Gulf of America" as the name for the former Gulf of Mexico in state law and public school textbooks. The change follows a federal executive order by President Trump and ...