Oil and gas have been seeping from the ocean floor for thousands of years, and the Santa Barbara Channel is home to one of the largest seep fields in the world. This fact has been misused by some ...

The WaveWalker, my charterboat, was hired numerous times over the years for a photographers’ offshore dream assignment. Swirling oil seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel create artistic images for ...

For centuries, Californians have lived alongside some of the most visible natural oil seeps in the world. From the bubbling tar of the La Brea pits in Los Angeles to the slicks that rise offshore in ...

From oil rigs to tar seeps, it’s hard to miss the presence of petroleum around the Santa Barbara Channel. And the proximity of UC Santa Barbara has enabled scientists to investigate the interplay ...

2:24 p.m. March 11, 2024: An earlier version of this article stated that a Coast Guard official said the oil spill was caused by natural seepage from the ocean floor off Huntington Beach. Officials ...

Petroleum sheens on the ocean off a stretch of Southern California coast are consistent with oil from local natural seeps, but old abandoned oil wells could be a factor, authorities said Saturday. The ...

A former Georgetown University professor discussed her new book on tar seeps — raw oil rising through cracks in tectonic plates — and climate change in a March 12 event. Henderson referred to “Spiral ...

Oil that naturally seeps from the seafloor to the surface of the ocean off the coast of Santa Barbara served as a laboratory of sorts as scientists worked to develop a new tools for use in a spill ...

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A natural seafloor oil seep looks to be the culprit in the case of a sheen spotted near a pair of Shell platforms earlier this week, US regulators said Friday. Shell, the Coast Guard and the Bureau of ...

The oil seeps are believed to relate to a magnitude 4.8 earthquake, 160 kilometres west of Oban, Stewart Island, which occurred on 19 February and appears to have reactivated earlier oil seeps noted ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Some marine life thrives on oil bubbling up naturally from the seabed even though it cannot cope with giant single leaks like the one from BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, ...