An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

Labels for the Gulf of Mexico can still be found elsewhere on the NHC site, for now, such as the page with satellite imagery targeting various bodies of water where tropical activity is common.

After nine months on the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on March 18.