To everyone’s surprise, scientists found that the nodules release “dark oxygen” at 4,000 meters, where sunlight cannot reach. This discovery revolutionizes our understanding of deep-sea ...

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen.

Delicate ecosystem - Environmentalists said the presence of dark oxygen showed just how little is known about life at these ...

Marine scientists who made headlines last year with their discovery that deep sea nodules could be producing “dark oxygen” are embarking on a three-year research project to explain their findings.

“These geobatteries are the basis for a possible explanation of the ocean’s dark oxygen production.” The discovery that abyssal, or deep-sea, nodules are producing oxygen is “an amazing ...

Strewn across the Pacific Ocean’s seafloor, potato-sized rocks called nodules are a treasure in the deep sea ... noted unexpected oxygen readings. With no light at such dark depths ...

The discovery of dark oxygen has shifted our understanding of the deep sea and potentially life on Earth. But we still don’t know for sure how this oxygen is produced, and to what extent ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a phenomenon they're calling "dark oxygen" — oxygen ... now have evidence that these deep-sea nodules may act like “geobatteries ...

Many of the minerals involved in proposed deep sea mining operations are located on black, potato-shaped nodules that lie on ...

There’s only you, a dwindling oxygen supply, and a growing sense of dread. Thallassophobia and claustrophobia are at the ready, and Dark Mass is ... wide — it’s deep, filled with narrow ...