Gulf & South Atlantic

The Mississippi Coast takes a staggering blow when Hurricane Camille crashes ashore on Aug. 17.

Flashback Friday: November 2019

Jessica Hathaway

Diane Wilson protests Formosa Plastics after documenting the company's discharge of billions of plastic pellets in a Texas estuary. San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper photo

Plastics company to pay $50 million for polluting Texas waterways

Jessica Hathaway

Record low Gulf Coast supply could jolt oyster prices

Sue Cocking

Florida fisherman sentenced in dad’s beating death

Kirk Moore

The Trump administration moves to expand offshore oil leases, which could make the sight of oil drilling platforms more common on every coast. Divulga

House Democrats vote for offshore oil ban

Kirk Moore

Florida stone crab. Florida Sea Grant photo.

Stone crab landings hit bottom

Sue Cocking

Hurricane Dorian's Sept. 6 landfall flooded Ocracoke Island, N.C. Coast Guard video image/ PO1 Stephen Lehmann.

Hurricane Dorian lands a punch on Outer Banks

Maureen Donald

In the water, naval architect Tom Farrell

Reaching for the stars

Paul Molyneaux

Dorian's hit comes almost exactly one year after Hurricane Florence came ashore near Wilmington, N.C., close to the South Carolina border. NOAA image

Dorian's deluge: Carolinas batten down for battering

Jessica Hathaway

Backers hope Louisiana label law will boost native seafood

Kirk Moore

Mississippi beach closures — Officials in Mississippi have closed all 21 of the state's public beaches as a result of toxic bacterial blooms.

Toxic algae bloom closes 21 Mississippi beaches

Jessica Hathaway