Venice, Florida, is famous for its sunny beaches and shark teeth, but just offshore lies a much deeper story about Earth’s past. A short distance from the coast, the seafloor is covered with ...

Every member of Florida's U.S. Congressional delegation signed a letter urging president Trump not to expand oil exploration ...

Florida lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing back on a plan by the Trump administration for new offshore oil drilling.

Florida lawmakers spent much of the 2025 legislative session at odds with each other, causing several education bills to be delayed until the last scheduled day of session and jammed into two major ...

If the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has its way, a huge swath of the Eastern Gulf, long considered off limits, will be opened to offshore drilling.

A 12-foot, 1,000-pound great white shark recently tagged by OCEARCH scientists pinged repeatedly off the SW Florida coast.

Escambia County is proposing updating local ordinances to reflect Gulf of Mexico name change The move comes after Escambia County changed the Pensacola Beach welcome sign to Gulf of America The board ...

Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off coppery scales. These red drum are farmed, not wild. They circle inside a ...

In the race to out-MAGA one another, Texas is now on its back foot after the Florida Department of Transportation removed all the road signs for Gulf of Mexico Drive from one beachside town last month ...