This is a tale of cause and effect in the deep sea woven by threads of hypotheses held together by the loom of targeted sampling efforts and multiple lines of evidence. You see, dear readers, once ...

Mother Nature threw EnCana a curve ball. That was EnCana geologist Joel Fox’s conclusion about how natural gas from the Schwartz Well 2-15B was released into West Divide Creek a year ago. Gas bubbling ...

Eight years after natural gas started leaking from an Encana USA natural gas well into West Divide Creek south of Silt, benzene levels are close to falling within acceptable water quality levels.

A new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is the first to quantify the amount of oil residue in seafloor ...

Natural gas in underground rock layers can seep to the surface—sometimes in quantities abundant enough to produce “eternal flames.” Researchers say much remains to be learned about these conditions ...

Stop Oil Seeps (SOS) California , a local nonprofit organization committed to reducing the negative impacts of natural oil and gas seepage on the Central Coast, today announced its formal response to ...

This is a repost of KZ’s winning post for Open Laboratory 2009: The Best Science Writing on the Web. Congrats to KZ! This is a tale of cause and effect in the deep sea woven by threads of hypotheses ...