President Donald Trump is renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. But how will that change go into effect – and will everyone call it that?

Editor's note: On May 6, 2025, a Republican-led House of Representatives committee moved forward with legislation that would make the name change from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America permanent. A ...

NOAA's Gulf of America Disaster Response Center in Mobile, Alabama, is covering the word "Mexico" on its facade to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order. NOAA and other federal agencies ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three months ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57-foot charter boat, “Backdown 2.” The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...