More On Powerful Hurricanes *Risk To Tampa GDP *Florida’s Billion Damages The primary reason the storm grew so rapidly is the ...

Hurricane Rafael, a Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of over 100 mph, was moving through open waters in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday ... 80-to-84-degree ocean water, a moisture-rich ...

The latest forecast models suggest Rafael will remain in the Gulf and either weaken over water or move into Mexico at some point next week, CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan said early Thursday.

Building inspectors last month cited owners of the Antigua apartment buildings with hundreds of code violations, and given ...

The Loop Current is an ocean current that transports warm Caribbean water through the Yucatan Channel between Cuba and Mexico. The current flows northward into the Gulf of Mexico, then loops ...

Nearby, two shrimp boats pulling fire boom were burning oil skimmed ... to offset a long-term decline in shallow-water oil production. The Gulf of Mexico now accounts for 30 percent of U.S ...

Three years later the EPA denied the petition, saying that though it agrees “nutrient loadings to the Mississippi River and its tributaries are both harming upstream water quality and contributing ...

8 (UPI) --Rafael has weakened into a tropical storm as slowly moved in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday ... out on Friday for this first time since a fire damaged the roof and spire of the historic ...

AccuWeather meteorologists said the disturbance has a high risk of development, as water temperatures in the southern Gulf of Mexico and northwestern Caribbean Sea remain above 80 degrees.

There have been dozens of armed attacks by pirates in the southern Gulf of Mexico, primarily on offshore ... in which robbers opened fire and stole high-value equipment. U.S. officials recognize ...

Proposals from two Chicago companies to build large wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico has reignited enthusiasm for wind energy development in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oh, and the mighty Mississippi River, that legendary body of water that winds 2,350 miles through 10 different states on its ...