To facilitate getting the best visuals, I positioned the boat to enhance reflectivity from the oil sheen. In areas with natural gas seeps, the oil sheen from bubbles is at its photographic best ...

These birds weren’t victims of an oil spill, however. They were caught in a natural process where oil seeps out of the seafloor — a phenomenon that intensifies during the spring, Masvidal said. Last ...

Led by the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SCSIO), the research facility of cold-seep ecosystem comprises three key components, including a crewed deep-sea ...