Flower Garden Banks got its name from snapper fishermen at the turn of the last century, who compared the corals and sponges they could see below the ocean's surface to familiar flowers. As a regional ...

National conservation groups and aquarium partners celebrated the expansion of Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, announced Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary is among the healthiest coral reef ecosystems in the tropical Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, according to NOAA researchers. Their report offers insights ...

The only national marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico has nearly tripled in size. The addition of 14 reefs and banks to the three already included enlarges the Flower Garden Banks National Marine ...

One of the U.S. Gulf Coast’s most biodiverse marine sanctuaries, about 90 miles from the coast of Jefferson County, will almost triple in size after a long-awaited federal rule was finally approved.

"Window in the Waves" documents the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, a rare collection of healthy coral 110 miles off the Louisiana-Texas border in the Gulf of Mexico. The filmmaker is ...

The Karvi flowers that are endemic to Western Ghats and bloom once in seven years have been spotted at Gautala Autramghat wildlife sanctuary, located about 65km from here. Experts were surprised to ...

BAILEYS HARBOR, Wis. (WLUK) -- A couple of rare flowers are making an appearance at a Door County nature preserve. The long winter followed by the cold spring slowed the flowers' arrival. But now, ...

U.S. Government agency BOEM informs that Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 238 attracted US$109,951,644 million in high bids for 81 tracts covering 433,823 acres on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf ...

GALVESTON – A mass die-off of coral and other sea animals was discovered this week on a reef in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, federal officials said Friday. Sports divers ...