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The next storm system is forecast to shift over the Plains, bringing heavy snow to some areas. Meanwhile, the South and Southeast are expected to see rain.

Environmental scientists say Rice’s whale, discovered in 2021, faces extinction unless...

Experts say a natural La Nina weather pattern, unusually warm moist air juiced by climate change, and long-term shift in where tornadoes hit all are factors in Thursday's devastating tornado in Alabama.

The Oracle of Omaha struck a gusher with his stakes in Japan’s major trading houses.

A remote national park in the Gulf of Mexico closed on Monday after about 300 migrants landed there over the holiday weekend, officials said.

Beaches in Southwest Florida are dealing with red tide fish kills and warnings as the harmful algal bloom makes its way from the Gulf of Mexico. Here's what people should know.

A cool front brings some light rain this weekend

The wreckage of a rented single-engine Piper Cherokee was found about one-third of a mile west offshore from the Venice Municipal Airport.

The Biden administration will give three tribal communities $75m to move from coastal areas.

Nine out of 27 loggerhead sea turtles were released after being in rehab at the Texas State Aquarium's Wildlife Rescue Center.

A 28-year-old man fell overboard from the Carnival Valor cruise ship hours before he was reported missing off of the southeast Louisiana coast. The passenger is in stable condition.

A US Coast Guard helicopter rescued a man who was reported to have fallen overboard from a cruise ship into the Gulf of Mexico about 20 miles (32 kilometers) off Southwest Pass, Louisiana on Thanksgiving Day. (Nov. 26)

The Texas State Aquarium established an emergency loggerhead turtle recovery facility in Port Corpus Christi after many reptiles were stranded on the beach.

Monday will bring gray skies and rain to Houston, continuing the area's bad weather streak.

Nature Conservancy set out to build 33 oyster reefs and accomplished that goal in August 2022.

A federal agency says an outage involving a Coast Guard marine warning system and “data gaps” in radar systems were factors in last year's deadly capsize of an oil industry lift boat off Louisiana's coast.

"Unless significant conservation actions are taken, the United States is likely to cause the first anthropogenic extinction of a great whale species," scientists said.

The "extraordinarily fortunate, once-in-a-lifetime search-and-rescue effort" came after one of the boaters was able to text a screenshot of his location.

KPRC 2 Meteorologist Caroline Brown updates the track of Tropical Storm Karl and its potential impact on drought conditions in Texas

The anglers were adrift in the Gulf of Mexico for more than a day.

After meeting residents and business owners devastated by Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Fla., Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Biden, discussed how local, state and federal agencies can work together to help those affected by the storm.

Tropical Disturbance #1 just approaching the southern Caribbean islands is retreading the path that the disturbance that became Hurricane Ian took just two weeks ago.

Hurricane Ian caused the collapse of the last four Cape Romano dome homes.

A quick study by two scientists calculates that climate change made Hurricane Ian 10% rainier than it would have been if there were no such thing as global warming.

Hurricane Ian carved a path of destruction through central Florida, with extreme winds, heavy rains and a torrent of waters flooding in from the Gulf of Mexico.Roads and bridges were washed away, coastal cities were swamped and electrical systems were wrecked - leaving millions of homes and businesses without power. While the full scope of the disaster is not yet known, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says it will take years to rebuild.We'll hear an eyewitness account of the destruction in Ft. Myers and check in with NPR's Greg Allen in Sarasota, where many neighborhoods are flooded.In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

A large section of a causeway connecting a Florida island to the mainland collapsed in Hurricane Ian, leaving anyone who did not evacuate stranded.

Hurricane Ian has grown into an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm above the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Florida landfall.

Large waves, longer swell periods and dangerous rip currents are expected along the Texas Gulf Coast this week due to Hurricane Ian.

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Tropical storm-force winds were expected across the southern peninsula late Tuesday.

Hurricane Ian battered Cuba and turned toward the west coast of Florida on Tuesday (Sept. 26) as satellites track the harrowing storm from space.

Hurricane Ian is quickly gaining monstrous strength as it moves over oceans partly heated up by climate change, just like 30 other Atlantic tropical storms since 2017 that became much more powerful in less than a day.

Ian was forecast to strengthen even more over warm Gulf of Mexico waters, reaching top winds of 140 mph before making landfall again.

Here’s what to know Tuesday as Bradenton and Manatee County prepare for a possible major hurricane.

Hurricane Ian tore into western Cuba as a major hurricane Tuesday and left 1 million people without electricity.

Watch a loop of KPRC 2 graphics as all eyes turn toward Hurricane Ian.

Hurricane Ian is now poised to cross Cuba likely becoming a major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and making landfall in Florida later this week. Here’s the current National Hurricane Center forecast:

The storm will spend several days intensifying in the Gulf but could weaken a bit before landfall. Here’s why the Mississippi Coast, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida should be on high alert.

Citing water quality concerns, the Environmental Protection Agency may refuse to recognize a permit that Texas approved Thursday for a marine desalination plant at the Port of Corpus Christi.

The Space Launch System edges closer to a maiden flight after concluding a tanking demonstration.

A developing tropical system, known as Invest 98L, could spin up into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico by next week, forecasters warned Wednesday.

It feels great with a taste of fall, but a summer feel returns tomorrow

The Biden administration has accepted nearly $190 million in bids from an offshore oil and gas lease sale that was held nearly a year ago but rejected by a federal judge.

Mexico’s state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos oil company has acknowledged it released a huge plume of methane, a potent greenhouse gas

For a week now, we’ve been watching the potential of a Caribbean cloud or two to develop into a monster Gulf hurricane--one that by the American model threatened anywhere from Destin, Florida to New Orleans to Houston to Corpus and, as of Friday and the weekend, Mexico. Here is the Friday forecast with that big storm moving in just south of Brownsville over Labor Day weekend:

Tropical Storm Danielle never formed in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday as forecasters had predicted. In fact, the tropical cyclone quickly became disorganized, degenerating into a low of trough pressure making its way onto the Tamaulipas coast Saturday afternoon. Late Saturday afternoon, a tropical storm warning was in effect for coastal Cameron County and coastal Willacy County because of anticipated tropical storm conditions, the National Weather Service in Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley reported. Tropical storm force winds were anticipated late Saturday night. Unsure of what type of rainfall the tropical cyclone would bring to the Valley, cities across the area set up sandbag distribution sites early Saturday morning.

Although the threat of a tropical storm forming in the Gulf of Mexico is now lessened after the National Weather Service in Brownsville announced it’s disorganizing Saturday, cities across Hidalgo County are continuing with plans to distribute sandbags to its residents.

A disturbance churning in the Gulf of Mexico has little chance of developing into a tropical storm, the National Weather Service in Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley reported Saturday morning.

A tropical storm warning remains in effect for Cameron and Willacy counties as forecasters predicted tropical storm Danielle would form overnight Friday in the Gulf of Mexico. The disturbance quickly organized Friday afternoon prompting the National Weather Service in Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley to issue tropical storm warnings for the two counties. A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area within 36 hours. The tropical storm warning prompted Cameron County Friday to ready sandbags for distribution should they be needed. There’s a potential for tropical storm wind gusts in the upper Rio Grande Valley and brush country but this depends on how long the system can remain intact on land.

The National Hurricane Center says a tropical wave in the Gulf of Mexico and Bay of Campeche has a 60% chance of developing into a tropical depression later Friday or Saturday. The system is moving northwestward across the southwestern and western Gulf of Mexico, the NHC reported Friday morning. It is expected to move inland over northeastern Mexico sometime Saturday, which would prevent further development. An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate the system Friday afternoon. Regardless of development, this system could bring locally heavy rains to portions of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas over the weekend, according to the NHC.

Renewable energy incentives in the climate bill signed by President Joe Biden are expected to drastically reduce overall U.S. emissions.

Louisiana was once "largely written off" as a place for sea turtles to nest. That might now be changing – and helping Kemp's ridley sea turtles survive in the process.

A judge's order that forced the Biden administration to resume sales of oil and gas leases on federal land and waters has been lifted by a federal appeals court.

The world's smallest and most endangered sea turtle has hatched in Louisiana's wilds for the first known time in 75 years.

The Coast Guard and Texas General Land Office (GLO) are working on a pollution incident that occurred Tuesday in Tabbs Bay near Houston.

The Rio Grande Valley could experience additional rain this weekend, as the National Hurricane Center continues to monitor a tropical wave that is expected to move over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.

Climate change in the northeastern U.S. has generally meant wetter weather, rising sea levels, heavy precipitation and storm surges. But this summer has exposed a stealthy drought that's made lawns crispy and has farmers begging for rain. (Aug. 15.) (AP Video: Rodrique Ngowi)

A disturbance began to develop Friday just offshore of southeastern Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters said.

Rain chances are forecasted to continue in the Corpus Christi area this week as isolated showers and thunderstorms could form over the Gulf of Mexico.

The area covers 546,645 acres, which could produce enough energy to power 2.3 million homes.

Dozens of people are unaccounted for and more than a hundred homes have been destroyed after heavy rains in southwest Virginia.

Heat advisory in effect until 8pm tonight

Thanks to the Gulf of Mexico loop current, debris washes ashore from as far away as Brazil

Federal authorities say 1 million gallons of oil have been collected since April 2019 at the nation's longest oil spill iste, in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.

"The vessel will be Coast Guard inspected and will have helicopter access for transport and emergencies," the organization says.

Footage shows the truck racing two planes down the tarmac at the Battle Creek Executive Airport before it exploded into flames.

The proposal brought immediate backlash from both environmentalists, who accused Biden of...

The proposal brought immediate backlash from environmentalists who accused Biden of betraying the climate cause, while oil industry officials said it would do little to counter high energy prices.

The Biden administration is proposing up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska over the next five years.

I’ve been talking all year about La Nina, that cooler-than-normal water in the Pacific, which basically means dry weather for Texas and a lack of upper level winds across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Its opposite, El Nino, is warmer than normal Pacific water which creates those upper level winds and those winds can shear apart developing tropical systems. So El Nino is El Amigo in that regard! La Nina not so much.

Our first named storm of this hurricane season may form in the next two days

The remnants of the Pacific’s Hurricane Agatha look poised to redevelop in the Caribbean on this first day of the Atlantic Hurricane season and I’ve been getting emails like this:

The Biden administration says it is canceling three oil and gas lease sales scheduled in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska.

As I write this and check my pool water, it’s an amazing 88°! Totally ready for swimming, but the pool is a shallow body of water and easy to heat up when we’re having record heat! The Gulf of Mexico water is still hovering in the upper 70s to low 80s near shore, but 80° is that magical threshold where the water is warm enough to sustain tropical storms and hurricanes. And that number, which calculates to 26° Celsius, is abundant and even higher goes to 28°C right now:

SpaceX has returned four astronauts from the International Space Station with a midnight splashdown off the Florida coast.

A plane carrying former President Donald Trump was forced to make an emergency landing in New Orleans last weekend after suffering engine failure over the Gulf of Mexico.

If you’re familiar with the Texas coast, which isn’t known for having crystal clear water, you probably never would have suspected that a mere 100 miles off of Galveston is a 56 square mile marine sanctuary complete.

A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, saying the Biden administration did not adequately take into account its effect ongreenhouse gas emissions.

The ashes of Winter the dolphin have been returned to the sea, about two months after the beloved marine mammal of movie star fame died at a Florida aquarium.

Saturday brought in a day of heavy downpours, small hail, damaging winds, downed power lines and one tornado.

The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday will auction vast oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico estimated to hold up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude.

Energy companies have offered a combined $192 million for drilling rights on federal oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico in the first government lease sale under President Joe Biden.

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a 200-day space station mission.

The Mexican government is allowing the environmentalist group Sea Shepherd to return to the Gulf of Mexico to help efforts to save the critically endangered vaquita marina porpoise, but won't let the group remove illegal gill nets.

From weather advisories and forecast models to photos and videos from the field, the social media accounts listed below are providing accurate, up-to-the-minute information on the storm.

Divers at the site of an ongoing oil spill that appeared in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida have identified the apparent source as one-foot diameter pipeline displaced from a trench on the ocean floor and broken open.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday that cleanup crews are responding to a sizable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Ida.

Federal and state agencies say they are responding to reports of oil and chemical spills resulting from Hurricane Ida following the publication of aerial photos by The Associated Press.

Response to disasters such as Hurricane Ida falls primarily to state and local officials, but the federal government is playing an important support role.

Response to disasters such as Hurricane Ida falls primarily to state and local officials, but the federal government is playing an important support role.

Oil companies began gradually to restart some of their refineries in Louisiana, and key fuel pipelines fully reopened, providing hopeful signs that the region’s crucial energy industry can soon recover from the blow of Hurricane Ida.

Companies evacuated oil and gas platforms south of Louisiana ahead of Hurricane Ida but a far greater worry was potential damage to refineries and petrochemical plants in its projected path from flooding and storm surge.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has ordered a mandatory evacuation for a small area of the city outside the levee system.

The National Hurricane Center said Fred has regained tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico as parts of the Caribbean began seeing impacts from tropical depression Grace.

A U.S. Coast Guard commander says a technical issue prevented it from relaying severe thunderstorm and marine warnings one day last April when a Seacor Power lift boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving 13 dead in hurricane-force winds.

U.S. government forecasters say they expect the Atlantic hurricane season to be busier than they first thought.

August fronts do happen, but rarely, and one is slated to limp through here next Tuesday/Wednesday. The models both push this through although the American seems to be a bit more optimistic. Here’s the latest from the American model--just follow that green precipitation line going through here and into the Gulf. That’s the front!

Given its location next to the Gulf of Mexico, one would think that the Tampa Bay region would have an extensive history with hurricanes. On the contrary, that's not the case.

Phil Klotzbach, a researcher and hurricane expert at Colorado State University, has issued his July updated forecast for the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season Thursday. He’s predicting another busy season.