The Gulf of Mexico covered the gently sloped sand hills of lower Arkansas until about 50 million years ago. The Ouachita orogeny--the collision that pushed up what we know, in eroded form, as the ...

Some residents along the Gulf Coast are creating habitat for the endangered birds on their properties, but development, ...

Following the species' comeback, new pressures are converging on their wintering habitat along the Texas coast.

Galveston, Texas, swaps summer crowds for history, art, and island magic once the temperature drops. When summer fades and the crowds head home, the island finally exhales. The beaches grow quiet, the ...

WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY — Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its “whooping” call, is one ...

Texas is working on “The Gate,” the country's largest coastal protection project to date. Coalter Baker, executive director of the Gulf Coast Protection District, tells “Morning in America” the ...

The ambitious, borderline mythical coastal flood-prevention project colloquially known as the 'Ike Dike' has taken a small step toward reality. But bringing it to fruition will take, with apologies to ...

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . The district charged with overseeing the construction of a massive set of ...

A new medical study found that the wide-ranging symptoms of Gulf War illness appear to be caused by a failure of cells to produce adequate energy, bringing experts a step closer to finding the root ...

Gulf South Pipeline Co. LLC, a subsidiary of Boardwalk Pipelines LP, Houston, has launched a binding open season for the Texas Gateway project aimed at providing a link between natural gas supplies in ...

The Trump administration is opening the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine ...

Consider yourself a "real Texan?" If you're like Lone Star State native and country music star Charley Crockett, you might have an opinion on what to call the body of water that stretches from South ...