Yeti crabs, shrimp, sea worms and starfish. And that’s just to name a few. They live between 1,800 and 3,600 meters below the Pacific Ocean off the shores of Costa Rica. A team of scientists, led by ...

A team from the US based Schmidt Ocean Institute and its research vessel MV Falkor together with scientists from Argentina will undertake the first and most comprehensive visually guided study of ...

Expedition hopes to better understand how far the chemicals from seeps spread underwater, and which organisms can utilize them as a food source Scripps biological oceanographer and mission leader Lisa ...

If you’ve been following the news lately then you’ve likely heard about the large-scale methane leak currently plaguing the city of Los Angeles. The months-long environmental disaster stemmed from an ...

From oil rigs to tar seeps, it’s hard to miss the presence of petroleum around the Santa Barbara Channel. And the proximity of UC Santa Barbara has enabled scientists to investigate the interplay ...

The Okeanos Explorer was a U.S. Navy ship before becoming NOAA's only large vessel dedicated to exploring oceans and making discoveries. (Ellis Berry/KUCB) The Okeanos Explorer docked in Unalaska last ...

China on Friday announced the official launch of a deep-sea research megaproject in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, designed to support cutting-edge fundamental research and development ...

Natural gas in underground rock layers can seep to the surface—sometimes in quantities abundant enough to produce “eternal flames.” Researchers say much remains to be learned about these conditions ...

Table 1 Deep-seawater, methane data, DOC data and isotope mass-balance model results. Figure 1: Radiocarbon (14 C) and 13 C properties of DOC plotted versus DOC concentration from deep sea water ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Some marine life thrives on oil bubbling up naturally from the seabed even though it cannot cope with giant single leaks like from BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, experts ...