Petroleum sheens on the ocean off a stretch of Southern California coast are consistent with oil from local natural seeps, but old abandoned oil wells could be a factor, authorities said Saturday. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 WaveWalker, my charterboat, was hired numerous times over the years for a photographers’ offshore dream assignment. Swirling oil seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel create artistic images for ...

A former Georgetown University professor discussed her new book on tar seeps — raw oil rising through cracks in tectonic plates — and climate change in a March 12 event. Henderson referred to “Spiral ...

* Oil seeps about 45 pct of all oil entering oceans * Microbes can cope with some, but not BP gusher By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, July 13 (Reuters) - Some marine life thrives on ...