In an unexpected discovery, hundreds of gas plumes bubbling up from the seafloor were spotted during a sweeping survey of the U.S. Atlantic Coast. Even though ocean explorers have yet to test the ...

Ocean researchers have found nearly 1,000 methane seep sites along the continental shelf of the Pacific Northwest. The bubble streams could be a sign of offshore energy potential, represent a ...

Cold seeps release methane, petroleum, carbon dioxide or hydrogen sulfide, while high-temperature seeps – known as hydrothermal vents or hot springs – are associated with underwater volcanoes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a good day to be a marine biologist: a bundle of new species has been found living among the deep-sea methane seeps off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. Scientists led by UC San Diego’s ...

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 ...