Gulf Coast

President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico has left residents along the Gulf Coast sharply divided. Some say it awakens their pride in the U.S. while others suggest it’s a silly distraction.The order, which Trump signed Monday night, his first day in office, directs the secretary of the Interior Department to take all the needed steps to change the name to “Gulf of America” within 30 days.The order says in part that the Gulf plays “a pivotal role in shaping America’s future and the global economy, and in recognition of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance to our Nation’s economy and its people, I am directing that it officially be renamed the Gulf of America.”

President-elect Donald Trump vowed to undo a directive Monday by President Joe Biden that would ban oil and natural gas drilling off Florida’s coasts. During an appearance with radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump called Biden’s directive “ridiculous” and said he had the right to “unban” drilling immediately.

Saldrone's award is part of a federal and state initiative to support infrastructure, habitat mapping, restoration projects, resource management, emergency response, and coastal resiliency and hazard studies. At 2,170 kilometers long, Florida’s coastline is second only to Alaska among U.S. states. Many parts of the Florida coast remain not surveyed, with existing nautical charts relying on outdated and low-resolution data.

A Gulf Low and a Caribbean system will simultaneously impact Florida this week. Flooding winds and damaging wind gusts are expected over the Panhandle and South Florida

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium celebrated the official opening of its Florida Coral Reef Restoration Crab Hatchery Research Center Monday as the first fully operational Caribbean king crab hatchery that will aid in efforts to save Florida’s coral reefs.

Florida gas prices increased as projected last week with the state average jumping 11 cents per gallon, reaching a new 2023 high of $3.85 per gallon on Thursday.

In what many scientists are calling “unprecedented” heat, some areas of the gulf are running 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than normal.

Saildrone and NOAA kicked off the third-annual Atlantic Hurricane mission this week with an event at NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland, Florida, where all the tools NOAA is using to study hurricanes were on display.

Just don't swim in it. The seawater lapping ashore on Seagate Beach and Keewaydin Island in Collier County is brown, but it’s not an immediate cause for alarm. It’s a bloom of Trichodesmium, a special kind of tiny plant that provides nitrogen to parts of the ocean that don't have enough nutrients. After it decays, however, marine scientists think it is a precursor to red tide

The National Hurricane Center reported that a central Gulf of Mexico system was an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms associated with a surface trough of low pressure interacting with an upper-level trough over the central Gulf of Mexico.