The study thus challenged the accepted theory that life emerged when organisms began producing oxygen through photosynthesis ...

adding it was possible that the oxygen detected was "trapped air bubbles" in the measuring instruments. He was also sceptical about deep-sea nodules, some tens of millions of years old ...

A new study published in Nature Geoscience in July 2024 suggests it’s unclear what causes dark oxygen, but a possible source ... a deep-sea mining company that partly funded Sweetman’s research and ...

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 ...

This unexpected source of “dark oxygen,” as it’s called ... such a moratorium is so important for protecting these deep-sea nodules in a comment to the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition ...

Historically, scientists thought that most oxygen came from photosynthesis, where plants and microorganisms convert sunlight into energy. However, the new findings show that the deep-sea nodules ...