The Gulf of Mexico basin formed some 300 million years ago, according to the National Parks Service. Its shallow waters became a natural habitat for many kinds of marine life.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, but who actually owns the waterway that touches multiple countries? The shores of the gulf touch not just the United ...

Under provisions of the United Nations’ Convention on the Law of the Sea, the United States directly controls the waters of the Gulf approximately 12 nautical miles from its shores.

Mexico will take Google to court if maps shown to US-based users continue to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America across the entire body of water, President Claudia Sheinbaum said ...

Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to Google asking the company not to comply with Trump's order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and explained why. ... it would only apply up to 12 nautical miles.

Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first body of water to have different names according to different countries.

The energy that supercharged Hurricane Milton into a Category 5 storm on Monday came from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which have been abnormally warm not just at the surface, but at depth, too.

In 2007, Mexico asked to extend its continental shelf up to 350 nautical miles in certain areas, which would overlap some of the U.S.'s jurisdiction. The Commission on the Limits of the ...

Mr. Trump’s order directs the U.S. secretary of the interior to update the government’s Geographic Names Information System within 30 days, removing all references to the Gulf of Mexico.

The shores of the gulf touch not just the United States, but also wide swaths of Mexico’s east coast and parts of Cuba. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. WATCH HERE ...