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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Less methane ends up in the atmosphere, but it’s much more of a problem when it gets there. It is 80 times more potent at trapping heat. The Washington state Department of Ecology recently put ...

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 ...

The creature raises the number of new species found by scientists studying these seemingly inhospitable ecosystems to 48 Rouse and his colleagues have encountered roughly 450 species at the Costa ...

The latest study “is important because it shows how ubiquitous [methane] seeps, of various origins, are in the environment of retreating glaciers,” Walter Anthony said in an email.

Off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica sits a deep-sea chimera of an ecosystem. Jacó Scar is a methane seep, where the gas escapes from sediment into the seawater, but the seep isn’t cold like the ...

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 ...

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.