The scientists found methane seeps like this one by combining visual surveys, seafloor mapping and chemical sampling for methane at suspected sites—they even traced telltale bubbles using sonar.

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 ...

There are four known gas seeps in Hawke’s Bay. This one is in Raukawa Valley, about 30km from the coast and scientists from the US, Chile and Italy joined Hawke’s Bay Regional Council groundwater ...

An alien, underwater world could hold the answers to China’s energy security, scientists say, as they work to unlock its ...

🇨🇳 China is constructing a groundbreaking deep-sea space station 2,000 meters beneath the South China Sea, set to be fully ...

This new species of annelid worm was found in deep sea sediments near methane seeps off the Pacific coast of central America. Anguillosyllis have an interesting evolutionary placement within Syllidae ...

The samples of bacteria and archaea from the ocean floor were collected from the methane seeps at Hydrate Ridge, just 62 miles off the coast of Oregon. Using a three-person submersible called ...

Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but there is far less of it in the atmosphere and it does not stay there as long. Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon ...