Scientists have come up with a new and innovative plan to tackle climate change, which is filling the giant Pacific Ocean ...

The long-standing mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so huge so quickly could be solved by decaying dark matter ...

Created over millions of years, manganese nodules along the abyssal plain contain many of the metals needed to make batteries ...

Surangel S. Whipps Jr., president of the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau, wants more countries to join him in calling for ...

The discovery of dark oxygen at an abyssal plain on the ocean floor generated a lot of interest. Could this oxygen source ...

Researchers from Boston University have made a startling discovery: rocks are producing "dark oxygen" in a region currently ...

Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source ...

Recently, scientists made an unexpected discovery: these deep-sea rocks are producing oxygen—a phenomenon they’re calling “dark oxygen.” Typically, we think of oxygen as something created ...

However, these deep-sea formations, called polymetallic nodules ... Surprising Discovery of Oxygen in the Dark Depths A team of scientists, including researchers from Boston University, recently ...

In the dark? Indeed! An international collaboration of ... was that it was being produced by microbial activity. To investigate this oxygen production, the team deployed deep sea chambers that land on ...

The scientists say that more research is needed into how, and how much, dark oxygen is produced before deep-sea mining commences, as there may be an impact beyond the immediate area in which mineral ...