The executive order aims to dismantle safeguards put in place under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a law historically used by presidents to protect U.S. coastal waters from oil and gas ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 was the largest marine oil spill in the petroleum industry. Scientists troubled after ...

The law authorizes the president to withdraw offshore areas from oil and gas leasing, as eight administrations, including the first Trump administration, have routinely done. However, the law does not ...

Two conservation coalitions are asking a federal court to keep protections ordered by former President Joe Biden.

“Offshore drilling is a dirty and damaging practice that is a direct threat to our thriving ocean recreation economy,” Chad ...

The suit, filed in Alaska, is likely to be the first of many challenging the administration’s goal of expanding fossil fuel ...

Conservation groups today filed the first environmental lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect oceans from offshore drilling. One set of groups is challenging an illegal order by ...

New Orleans was significantly impacted by the spill. Its people are familiar with overwhelming disasters, understanding the ...

Helga Huntley collaborates with biologists, oceanographers and other scientists to use mathematics to measure and better ...

According to the January 2025 sargassum update, residents and visitors across the Virgin Islands may soon begin to notice an ...

The world's only museum dedicated to the history and culture of the Gulf of Mexico may be in hot water ... "They associate it with oil spills and hurricanes." In recent weeks, Davis says friends ...

In a new study, biology researchers from the College of Sciences’ UCF Marine Turtle Research Group studied the dispersal movements of four juvenile sea turtle species, revealing that they may be ...