Clearwater is joining in statewide resistance to proposed federal plans for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Citing the city’s coastal economy and threats to marine life, the City Council on ...

The plan would open up a massive amount of waters to new oil and gas drilling and would be detrimental to marine life.

Dozens of concerned citizens, community advocates and elected officials gathered at Pensacola Beach on Saturday to oppose oil drilling plan.

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A law that led to a $100 million fine after Deepwater Horizon is on shakier ground under President Donald Trump. Emily L. Mahoney is the energy reporter. Reach her at emahoney@tampabay.com. Max ...

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's ...

If there’s any upside to the Trump administration’s newly unveiled plan to allow oil drilling off the West Coast of Florida for the first time in decades, it’s this: The pushback against this bad idea ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

Divers off the coast of Sapientza Island in southern Greece have launched a determined effort to remove "ghost nets" — abandoned fishing gear that silently strangles marine ecosystems. Draped like ...

Marine life is thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs sitting at the bottom of a German bay, a submersible has discovered, even capturing footage of starfishes creeping across a huge chunk of TNT. The ...

Scientists exploring a World War II weapons dumpsite in the Baltic Sea have discovered swarms of sea creatures thriving on the surfaces of long-abandoned explosives thought to be toxic to marine life.

Cameron Parish will receive a sizable grant to help rebuild its vanishing marshlands, state officials announced. The Calcasieu-Sabine Basin will get $122 million from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil ...