From microbial metabolism to pollutant synergy, this study builds a scientific roadmap for integrating methane biofilters into broader climate action. Methane’s role as a climate driver has become ...

Microbes living beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet may survive on methane generated by geothermal heat rising from deep below Earth’s surface. The discovery could have implications for assessing ...

Seid said Costa Rica is known for its hot springs and volcanoes and beneath the sea the equivalent are methane seeps. This basket starfish from Costa Rican waters is found at the Benthic ...

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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A team of scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is getting ready to explore the deep-sea ecosystems surrounding methane seeps off the ...

Marine biologists have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm living near a methane seep some 50 kilometers (30 miles) off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at UC ...

He and colleagues Grant Garven at Tufts University and Chris Peltonen at Beacon West Energy Group determined that production of oil and natural gas from the platform reduced natural methane seepage ...

highlighting and constraining uncertainties in current methane estimates from methane seepage sites in the Arctic. At the forefront of ocean observatory technologies is the K-Lander - an innovative ...

By collecting samples at seven different seafloor seeps around North America, Marlow and his colleagues figured out that rock-inhabiting microbes were actually consuming methane inside the rocks.

Photo: Xinhua Scientists have discovered an active methane seep from Antarctica's sea bed that could shed light on the potent greenhouse gas trapped beneath the frozen continent. Marine ecologist ...

Over a 20-year period, a kilogram of methane warms the planet as much as 80 times more than a kilogram of carbon dioxide. The reason for the emergence of the new seep remains a mystery.