Cold seeps, the sites on the ocean floor where the bubbles of the methane gas rise up, are a home for a varied communities of bacteria, bivalves and other associated life forms. Disclaimer ...

The research center will focus on three core challenges: how cold-seep ecosystems evolve, how organisms adapt to extreme conditions, and how methane — a potent greenhouse gas — interacts with ...

In terms of climate change, methane gas from cold seeps areas is a significant source of greenhouse gases, which has the potential to become a commercial energy source in the future. The leakage ...

The station will serve multiple functions, as a base for exploring a novel energy source, discovering new ... activity in a particularly large “cold seep” zone. These zones number in the ...

The primary focus of the facility will be the study of “cold seep” ecosystems – unique ... a potential energy source. The deep station will be equipped with an advanced life support system ...

The scientists on board Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) who are in the midst of a research expedition in the Atacama Trench found Chile’s deepest and most northern cold seeps at the ...