Fire-ice is a frozen form of methane hydrate, a natural gas. As Wired explained, "Under sufficiently low temperatures and high pressure, methane gas and liquid water freeze together under the ...

A Spanish scientific expedition has discovered columns of gas emerging from the seabed. Geologists also warn about the ...

Methane hydrates occur in five geographic settings (or sectors) that must be individually evaluated to determine their susceptibility to warming climate (Figure 1). The percentages assigned to ...

effectively creating methane hydrates (pictured at the right). This makes the methane much more transportable. Their method uses a material, made out of a mixture of silica and water, that can can ...