Scientists discovered three new species of sea spiders that live near the ocean floor and feast on bacteria that convert ...

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have found that certain deep-sea spiders are not predators or scavengers as once ...

Methane seeps are vents in the ocean floor teeming with bacteria and other microbes that feed off the gases being released, according to Benjamin Grupe, a biological oceanography graduate student ...

The methane seeps are near ports where many of the U.S. research ships dock. The ease of access has set off an exploration stampede, with several new projects in planning stages or already funded.

The K-Lander observatory -- where state-of-the-art technology meets science. A new study presents a unique time series collected by the K-Lander from two distinct methane seepage sites offshore ...

The Lasuen Knoll methane seep off the coast of Southern California as photographed in 2021. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute “These seeps host an amazing array of microbial processes that we are still ...

Methane seeps from near a mound covered with deep-sea mussels at a depth of 4,600 feet in the Atlantic Ocean just south of Norfolk Canyon off Virginia. NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program ...

Previously, researchers had only documented 200 methane seeps off the Pacific Northwest Coast. "Methane is a greenhouse gas," Embley said during a public radio interview with members of the joint ...

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, accumulates in subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs, such as coal beds and natural gas deposits. In the Arctic, permafrost and glaciers form a ‘cryosphere cap ...

Every day, methane gas seeps from Pacific Northwest landfills and it's estimated about 30% of today’s global warming is driven by methane. Heather Kuoppamaki, senior environmental engineer at ...