Mississippi River levels are so low that saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico is threatening drinking water in Louisiana. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ricky Boyett of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

According to Boyett, the river needs at least 300,000 cubic feet per second of water flowing down it to keep out the salt from the Gulf of Mexico; right now, he says, there’s only about half of ...

The Gulf Of Mexico's Dead Zone Is The Biggest Ever Seen : The Salt A record-setting "dead zone," where water doesn't have enough oxygen for fish to survive, has appeared this summer. One major ...

By any name, the gulf is the world's ninth-largest body of water. Not counting bays and inlets, its shoreline covers some 3,540 miles, more than half of it in Mexican territory and una pequeña ...

Sheinbaum Pardo cited a map from 1607 that refers to the body of water as the Gulf of Mexico in a press conference pushing back on Trump’s name change. The map also dubs North America as ...

As Gulf of Mexico Rises, Who Along Coast Is Most Vulnerable? Scientists predict the water will rise 18 inches in the next three decades and could rise another 3.84 feet by the end of this century ...

The Trump administration has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but most of the body of water lies outside maritime regions controlled by the United States. Territorial seas ...

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order demanding the body of water that runs along the United State’s Southeast Coast be renamed to the Gulf of America.

5 states surrounds Gulf of America. The Gulf of America is surrounded by five states: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. On the west of the gulf is Mexico and to the south is Cuba.