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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Dark oxygen has been uncovered at the bottom of the sea ... and now prove that oxygen can be produced in complete darkness about 4000 meters deep into the sea. According to current research, metallic ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where ... mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such as nickel and cobalt ...