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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microbial communities and metabolisms at hydrocarbon seeps -- Anaerobic hydrocarbon-degrading sulfate-reducing bacteria at marine gas and oil seeps -- Guaymas Basin, a hydrothermal hydrocarbon seep ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A team of ...

From oil rigs to tar seeps, it's hard to miss the presence of petroleum around the Santa Barbara Channel. Scientists have now investigated the interplay between the two processes releasing oil from ...