The hydrothermal vents and methane seeps on the ocean floor that were once thought to be geologic and biological oddities are now emerging as a major force in ocean ecosystems, marine life and global ...

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 ...

Teams of professional photographers chartered us to take them to oil seeps up the coast from Santa Barbara. I knew these spots well, and thrilled the photographers who shot well over 1,000 images ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez was exiting Alaska's Prince William Sound when it struck a reef in the middle of the night. What happened next is considered one of the nation's worst ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...