A team from the US based Schmidt Ocean Institute and its research vessel MV Falkor together with scientists from Argentina ...

It is well established that deep-sea ecosystems living in natural cold seep sites around the world thrive in areas where their only food source is limited to the uptake of carbon through ...

China is building an underwater center in Guangzhou to study cold springs and hidden changes on the seafloor from a research lab.

Cold seeps are places where hydrocarbons, mostly methane, emanate from the sea floor. Unlike the hydrothermal vents, the fluids and bubbles are no hotter than the surrounding seawater, thus the name.

Cold seeps are locations where seafloor communities are influenced by the seepage of methane and other reduced compounds from the seabed. We examined macro-infaunal benthos through community analysis ...