News tagged with methane seeps
How tiny microbes took a big bite out of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
(PhysOrg.com) -- Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, seeps naturally from the seafloor in many places around the planet, including in the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 24, 2011 |
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Microbes may consume far more oil-spill waste than earlier thought
Microbes living at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico may consume far more of the gaseous waste from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill than previously thought, according to research carried out within 100 miles of the spill site.
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Oct 20, 2010 |
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New discoveries in North America's Great Plains bring ammonites to life
New research on ammonites, a group of previously common marine invertebrates that went extinct after the Chicxuluxb impact 65 million years ago, is filling in details about the biology of these organisms.
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Oct 13, 2010 |
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Methane-eating microbes can use iron and manganese oxides to 'breathe'
Iron and manganese compounds, in addition to sulfate, may play an important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according to a team of researchers ...
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Jul 09, 2009 |
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Clam fields found at deep, low-temperature Mariana vents
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have marveled at the unusual life forms thriving at high temperature hydrothermal vents of the deep ocean.
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Feb 10, 2012 |
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Scientists describe new species of crab that "farms" methane vents
A species of crab found a thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean near Costa Rica lives off the bacteria on its claws – bacteria that it fertilizes by waving them in methane and sulfide released from the ...
Dec 03, 2011 |
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The methane habitable zone
In the search for life elsewhere, many studies focus on finding liquid water. But what if life could exist with some other solvent? Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan makes scientists question the possibilities ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Multibeam sonar can map undersea gas seeps
A technology commonly used to map the bottom of the deep ocean can also detect gas seeps in the water column with remarkably high fidelity, according to scientists from the University of New Hampshire and ...
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Oct 06, 2011 |
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Methane debate splits Mars community
Observations over the last decade suggest that methane clouds form briefly over Mars during the summer months. The discovery has left many scientists scratching their heads, since it doesn't fit into models ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Lessons learned from the two worst oils spills in U.S. history
One year after the notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and two decades after the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska the scientific lesson is clear ...
Aug 19, 2011 |
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New study argues against conclusion that bacteria consumed Deepwater Horizon methane
A technical comment published in the current (May 27) edition of the journal Science casts doubt on a widely publicized study that concluded that a bacterial bloom in the Gulf of Mexico consumed the methane discharged from t ...
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May 26, 2011 |
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Study debunks theory on end of 'Snowball Earth' ice age
A team of scientists led by researchers from Caltech report in this week's issue of the journal Nature that the rocks on which much of a theory on how the "Snowball Earth" ice age ended was based were formed ...
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May 25, 2011 |
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Seeking life's imprint in shifting desert sand
A group of scientists are hunched over, their eyes intently scanning the jumble of rocks on the ground. Every now and then, someone picks one up for closer inspection, turning it over and over again in their ...
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May 02, 2011 |
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NASA's Spaceward Bound goes to the deserts of the United Arab Emirates
Whether or not you remember the winter of 2011 as unusually cold or snowy, an adventurous team of experts will remember its intense heat, as they searched for microbial life between sand dunes in the United ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2011 |
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