A multinational scientific team led by UiT has uncovered the deepest known gas hydrate cold seep on the planet. The discovery ...

Far north in the Fram Strait, scientists from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working with colleagues including the ...

Beneath cold, high-pressure oceans, water and gas molecules clump together into crystalline solids called gas hydrates.

Gas hydrates, a form of natural gas that forms when methane from the decomposition of organic material comes into contact with water at low temperatures and high pressures, could play a role — even if ...

Natural gas-hydrates—crystalline compounds of gas molecules—are found in permafrost and marine sediments. While these gas hydrates can be used as alternative energy resources, they also pose a danger ...

A vast and untapped resource of fuel? A contributor to global climate change? A submarine hazard and potential trigger of tsunami's? A cause of catastrophic species extinction? An ELE - Extinction of ...

Researchers have identified a new source of methane for gas hydrates -- ice-like substances found in sediment that trap methane within the crystal structure of frozen water -- in the Arctic Ocean. The ...

THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (USGS), which is involved in natural gas hydrate (NGH) research in India and Japan, has assisted the Indian Oil Ministry in discovering highly enriched ...

Huge amounts of methane are locked up in deposits that lie deep beneath the sea floor. New seismic images reveal that these deposits possess unexpected features that might affect their stability. Gas ...

Like avalanches onshore, there are different processes that cause submarine landslides. One very widespread assumption is that they are associated with dissociating gas hydrates in the seafloor.

Shale has the spotlight for now. But there's another, lesser-known substance with the potential to yield even greater quantities of natural gas: methane hydrate. Hydrates consist of a lattice-like ...