Rip currents can be found at any beach with waves, at any time. Yes. A 19-year-old man from Oklahoma drowned in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday (June 20) in Panama City Beach. The News Herald has ...

Whatever we're calling her these days, the Gulf of Mexico is an unforgiving mistress ... People drown in the ocean because of rip currents, which are relentless but misunderstood.

The Mississippi River watershed, which more or less drains half the entire nation, deposits a prodigious amount of silt in the Gulf. If the currents in the Gulf are running east-west, as they ...

Tropical Storm Alvin has sustained winds of over 39 mph and became the first named storm of 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere.

During typical years, the Florida Keys may see widespread reports during the late spring, with more significant impacts ...

Rip currents kill 4 in 48 hours ... A 19-year-old man from Oklahoma drowned in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday (June 20) in Panama City Beach. The News Herald has not previously reported this ...

By Julian Reingold The macroalgae pelagic sargassum is abundant in the Sargasso Sea, but since 2011, a recurrent Great ...

Current estimates suggest that there are around 37.5 million metric tons of sargassum involved in this latest bloom. Despite ...

Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google after it changed the label for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps platform to match U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order to ...

A Buford couple died while swimming in the Gulf near Destin, Florida, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The couple's son was saved by a bystander.