Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Louisiana has beaches that’ll make you question everything you thought you knew about the state. Welcome to Grand Isle, where the Gulf of Mexico meets a barrier island so charming it feels like ...

Edward Burtynsky’s Three Gorges Dam Project exposes the environmental ramifications of the controversial Chinese dam, a $180 ...

Josh Wilkie and Fabio Galarce leaned over the side of their boat and hauled up a basket full of oysters, each just an inch or ...

Poza Rica is an oil town, and among the challenges confronting some residents who fled flooding that has killed 64 people ...

Mexico has deployed thousands of troops and civilian rescue teams to hundreds of communities that have been cut off by ...

Death toll from torrential rains in Mexico rises to 64 as search continues for missing - Helicopters ferry food and water to ...

Conservation groups urged a Maryland federal court for a quick win in their challenge to oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico, citing concerns over marine life. The court should vacate and ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft ...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Priscilla formed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico on Saturday. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Priscilla was a “large tropical storm,” with ...