The natural currents of the Atlantic Ocean cause great masses of sargassum to periodically drift from Africa to South America ...

The sargassum, a type of algae, is good for the ecosystem. But beachgoers may find it unappealing as it decays.

Sargassum may be stinking up Padre Island, but this ocean oddity is more than just a nuisance. Discover why experts say it’s ...

What at first glance looks like bird droppings suddenly splattered across the sand on Texas beaches might actually be a rare ocean drifter. A closer look reveals the delicate, tentacled forms of ...

Instead of seashells, surf, and sunscreen, beachgoers stumbled upon something a little more… powdery. Bundles of cocaine ...

Texas had to tiptoe around the venomous strip of fuzz known as the fireworm. These washed-up creatures wiggled their way up the Texas Gulf Coast, causing concern in any local and tourist in their path ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (507.2 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean ...

possibly from the Nazi ship the SS Rio Grande, which American naval vessels bombarded and sank. Other similar bales had washed up on several other beaches in Texas and Brazil.

The Visit Panama City Beach IRONMAN 70.3 Gulf Coast triathlon is scheduled for ... Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. "I appreciate everything (Visit PCB) does in relation to this," Chairman Douglass ...

Galveston and Jamaica Beach police on ... a raid on a ship off the coast. Jamaica Beach officials took to Facebook around 9:52 a.m. and said a raid on a ship in the Gulf led the ship's crew ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration's tally of prices in the Gulf Coast states includes Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas.