Content about Gulf of Mexico

Lying 90 miles from the southern tip of the Florida Keys is the country of Cuba.
It is a short commute; you could make it there in less than two hours by speed boat. Unfortunately, it is illegal for American citizens unless you are traveling for journalistic or educational purposes.
Before Cuba’s 1959 communist revolution, the United States traded with Cuba more than with any other country in the world. American companies owned the majority of Cuba’s farmlands and most of its mineral resources.

All the ingredients were there, according to meteorologists, for the outbreak of violent storms that hit the South on Wednesday.

Cold air versus warm air, something the professionals call wind shear (where strong winds aloft change speed or direction quickly) and the actual position of the United States in general, situated as we are between the cold from Canada and the very warm winds that blow upwards from the Gulf of Mexico.

We knew it was predicted. The super cells had been building for a week.

Since the mid-1990s, Kristine Willet has studied how various chemicals affect plants, animals and their ecosystems – specifically in the Gulf of Mexico.

OK, let’s take a moment to not bash Tony Hayward and BP (or at least I’ll try).

This is about the poor, defenseless sea animals of the Gulf: the sea turtles, the countless fish, shrimp and crustaceans, the sea gulls that fly about and yes, that yellow sponge that lives in a pineapple under the sea.

In his Presidential address last week, Barack Obama announced that he will be creating a new governmental organization to be watchdogs over the oil industry.

In an effort to provide aid to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi’s four research universities have joined forces to help monitor and relieves the effects of the disaster.

If you have watched the news in the past month, you have assuredly seen the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

This oil spill is the largest environmental disaster in American history.

It took me a little while to wrap my head around that concept.

We, as those living in Mississippi and the other Southern states, are directly impacted by this event.

Whereas the Exxon-Valdez used to be the oil spill most referenced, now the “BP oil spill” will continue to be something talked about for many years to come.