Pressure cores of methane hydrate. Scientists collected the cores during a 2023 mission led by The University of Texas at Austin.The cores are now kept in a special lab at the UT Austin Jackson School ...

The NETL Methane Hydrate Program is designed to support the development of Methane Hydrate science and enable highly qualified graduate and postgraduate students to pursue advanced degrees and ...

Naturally occurring methane hydrate deposits are potential sources of energy. However, their observation in natural environments remains challenging. Researchers have now developed a one-dimensional ...

Scientists have found a thriving deep-sea ecosystem nearly 2.5 miles beneath the Arctic Ocean. Led by researchers Giuliana Panieri and Jonathan T. Copley, the team uncovered an extraordinary set of ...

New research has shown that fire-ice - frozen methane which is trapped as a solid under our oceans - is vulnerable to melting due to climate change and could be released into the sea. An international ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese energy explorer said on Tuesday it extracted gas from offshore methane hydrate deposits for the first time in the world, as part of an attempt to achieve commercial ...

"What If We Never Run Out of Oil?," Charles C. Mann's May 2013 Atlantic cover story, weighs the potential impact of a vast, untapped reserve of natural energy under the sea: methane hydrate. What is ...

Lurking at the bottom of the ocean is a ticking time bomb of potential climate disaster. This would-be catastrophe is fire-ice, the oxymoronic compound frozen deep under the ocean floor. As the oceans ...

In the frigid depths of the Greenland Sea, nearly 12,000 feet beneath Arctic ice, scientists uncovered an extraordinary world ...