| Similar Articles |
 |
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Revisiting the Lost City This discovery of this hydrothermal vent community has a wide range of implications, from Earth's methane cycles to the search for early life forms -- and life elsewhere in the universe.  |
Geotimes October 2005 Lisa M. Pinsker |
Feuding Over the Origins of Fossil Fuels The so-called inorganic or abiogenic oil idea has been getting more attention lately. With oil more expensive than ever and many people citing future shortages, understanding the origins of petroleum is increasingly relevant.  |
Chemistry World July 27, 2009 James Urquhart |
From methane to liquid gold The world's supplies of oil may be larger than we think - or at least that is what researchers from the US, Russia and Sweden are speculating now they have shown that hydrocarbons can be formed in the mantle from methane.  |
Geotimes November 2004 Jay Chapman |
Taking the Fossil Out of Fuels New research is expanding the range of the formation of fossil fuels.  |
Chemistry World August 23, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Frozen Fuel Find Rewrites Rule Book Earth scientists are revising their ideas about natural gas hydrates after discovering that large deposits of the water and methane mixture can form at surprisingly shallow depths below the sea floor.  |
Chemistry World April 9, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
'Nickel famine' caused ancient oxygen rise A crucial increase in atmospheric oxygen that occurred around 2.4 billion years ago could have been triggered by a shortage of nickel in the oceans, according to Canadian researchers.  |
Geotimes November 2004 Dickens & Pinsker |
Methane Hydrate and Abrupt Climate Change Conceivably, we live in a world with an enormous amount of gas hydrate and free gas that affects climate and global systems over time  |
Wired December 2004 Joe MacInnis |
Aliens of the Abyss The expedition for James Cameron's latest film, "Aliens of the Deep," wasn't just for the big screen. It led to the recovery of important biological and geological samples and marked the first time four subs had worked at 2,700 feet.  |
Chemistry World August 19, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Deepwater data suggests oil is sticking around New data collected by a submersible robotic laboratory provides insights into the magnitude and potential impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  |
Financial Advisor June 2009 Jeff Schlegel |
Liquid Investment Water provides an ocean of investing opportunities.  |
Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt |
Acidic Waters Threaten Sea Life High acidity in the world's oceans may be threatening coral populations, such as those in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.  |
Geotimes November 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Acid Rain Alters Coastal Waters Excess carbon dioxide, sulfur and nitrogen from fossil fuel burning, agricultural runoff and other human sources are changing ocean chemistry -- and that impact is especially pronounced along the coasts, new research suggests.  |
Chemistry World February 13, 2015 Tim Wogan |
GM bacteria convert solar energy to liquid fuels A new scheme for storing the energy from photovoltaic cells, in which genetically modified bacteria reduce carbon dioxide to liquid fuels with hydrogen from water-splitting, has been proposed and partially demonstrated.  |
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Blow to Hopes for Life on Mars Organic molecules found on rocks from Mars may not be the remnants of ancient Martian microbes after all.  |
Geotimes October 2006 Megan Sever |
Giving Carbon a Deep-Sea Burial While many people are calling for an immediate reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, others are looking toward ways to dispose of the excess carbon dioxide. Burying the gas in sediments below the ocean could be a potential solution  |
Chemistry World February 27, 2013 Anthony King |
PharmaSea to scour ocean depths for new drugs A new project will soon see scientists trawling the ocean bottoms for new bioactive compounds. Scientists on the PharmaSea mission will haul samples of mud and sediment from the deep sea, isolating marine organisms in the hunt for novel drug candidates.  |
Geotimes July 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Ancient Ocean Burps A sediment core extracted from the ocean floor off the coast of Baja, Calif., indicates two "burps" of carbon dioxide were once released from a deep, stagnant part of the ocean.  |
Chemistry World August 2, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
If everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry Cafer Yavuz is a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon. His groups design and make new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to offer sustainable solutions for energy and environmental issues.  |
Geotimes June 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker |
Raining hydrocarbons in the Gulf Below the Gulf of Mexico, hydrocarbons flow upward through an intricate network of conduits and reservoirs. They start in thin layers of source rock and, from there, buoyantly rise to the surface.  |
Geotimes October 2003 |
Hydrocarbon oceans on Titan Ground-based radar telescopes finally have penetrated the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon to yield the first reliable evidence that it might have hydrocarbon oceans.  |
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 |
Nanotubes Make Fluid Filter Researchers have devised a simple and inexpensive way to manufacture very fine filters from carbon nanotubes. These filters could be used to separate heavy hydrocarbons from petroleum and bacteria and viruses from water.  |
Wired July 2000 Oliver Morton |
Fuel's Paradise World-class contrarian Thomas Gold has a theory about life on the planet: It's pumping out of the Earth's crust - and it's swimming in oil.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sandra Upson |
Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water.  |
Chemistry World December 12, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Aqueous Fischer-Tropsch is Clean and Green Chinese chemists have carried out the Fischer-Tropsch reaction in water for the first time, bringing a greener route to hydrocarbon fuels a step closer.  |
Popular Mechanics April 22, 2008 Chris Ladd |
Trees in Your Tank? The Future of Green Gasoline: Earth Day Extra Researchers recently published a new method of refining hydrocarbons from cellulose, paving the way to turn wood scraps into gasoline  |
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb |
Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments.  |
Chemistry World December 18, 2007 Victoria Gill |
Seeds of Doubt A company called Planktos plans to dump 50-100 tons of iron sulfate into a patch of ocean 100km wide in a bid to seed the growth of plankton.  |
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Nina Notman |
Iron helps oceans capture more carbon A team of international scientists studying the role of iron in the storage of carbon under the ocean have confirmed that natural iron fertilisation increases the rate of carbon capture.  |