These deep-sea rocks, known as polymetallic nodules, not only provide a habitat for numerous marine organisms but also, ...

The deep sea holds many secrets, with more than 80% of it being unmapped, unexplored, and unseen by any human in history. The discovery of "dark oxygen" found 13,000 feet under the sea has added yet ...

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

Rocks are generating 'dark oxygen' in an area being explored for deep-sea mining. Over 12,000 feet below the surface of the sea, in a region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ...

“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 ...

This "dark oxygen" is believed to be produced through a process called seawater electrolysis, facilitated by minerals targeted for deep sea mining. The discovery raises concerns about the ...

Researchers have found oxygen-producing rocks on the deep seafloor, challenging what we know about oxygen production.

Scientists posit that the formation of dark oxygen is an electrochemical process. The polymetallic nodules in the deep sea behave like a geobattery in which they "generate a small electric current ...

Mining of rare metals on deep sea and ocean floors miles below the surface could create "dark oxygen" and also cause potentially harmful changes to the marine ecosystem, according to new research.

In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, about 12,000 feet below the surface, lies a region called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ...

There are plenty of questions to continue asking, Marlow says, about what the dark oxygen discovery means for extraterrestrial oceans and our own. “For the most part, we think of the deep sea as ...

But that, of course, might delay any deep sea mining until the implications of that mining for dark oxygen are clarified. I've written about deep sea mining before to discuss a bacterium that ...