U.S. Gulf Coast refiners are snapping up higher volumes of Middle Eastern and South American crudes to offset the loss of Venezuelan and Mexican barrels, according to ship tracking data, a workaround solution that might be short-lived if the U.

The system likely won't develop into a tropical depression or storm, and it will likely cool us off after a sweltering few days. Here's more.

Recent hurricane seasons have been defined by storms supercharging over the Gulf of Mexico’s warmer-than-normal waters as they barrel toward Florida’s west coast. Experts are hopeful that trend could wane this summer,

A salvage ship was working in Mexican waters southeast of Starbase to pull up parts of a Starship booster that flew in November.

A low pressure system off the southeast coast of the U.S. is expected to move through the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana in the next day or two, but has a low chance of developing into the next named tropical storm.

A tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico is tracking toward the northern Gulf Coast, with forecasters warning that it could develop into a tropical depression before making landfall later this week.

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will delay by two years a final rule designating protections for the endangered Rice's whale in the oil and gas drilling region of the Gulf of Mexico, according to an agreement with environmental groups filed in a federal court.

The Gulf of Mexico (or Gulf of America) is seen from East Beach in Galveston, Texas, on Saturday, June 24, 2023. Jill Karnicki/Houston Chronicle via AP, File By

The Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights activist and MSNBC host, slammed the Trump administration’s decision to release the files on Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, calling the move a “desperate” effort to “distract” from the Jeffrey Epstein case. “We need to be crystal clear on the fact that Trump releasing the MLK assassination files is…