Another Louisiana resident has died from contracting flesh-eating bacteria, the state health department confirmed Tuesday.

This nature-filled drive in southwest Louisiana offers birdwatching, alligator sightings, and pristine beaches along a unique ...

Hurricane season peaks on September 10. Here's where things stand from the season's outlook to current ocean temperatures.

The boat was slicing through choppy waves many miles out to sea when the cry went out and fingers pointed the captain toward a patch of blue water, boiling with gray froth. It was a pogie ball, a ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hurricane Marco is heading across the Gulf of Mexico on a path toward the Louisiana coast. Tropical Storm Laura battered the Dominican Republic and Haiti and is headed to ...

Despite being called a “cruise,” the people on board The Pelican described the experience on the hypoxia monitoring expedition as very different from the elaborate dinners on a towering vacation ship ...

As climate change makes the earth warmer, heat-related deaths are climbing in Louisiana. Summers are getting hotter, ...

NOAA-supported scientists announced today that this year's Gulf of Mexico "dead zone"—an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life—is approximately 4,402 square miles, 21% smaller ...

The Mississippi River stretches for around 2,400 miles from central Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Every year, 30 to 50 ...