A mysterious phenomenon first observed in 2013 aboard a vessel in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean appeared ... calculate something called “sediment community oxygen consumption,” which ...

Deep-sea mining can also introduce harmful sediment plumes to fragile ecosystems leading to a growing number of countries ...

A new study has unveiled the key mechanisms that preserve organic carbon in the ocean—a poorly understood but vital process ...

Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean ... nitrogen enters the ocean,” Wang said. “If most of anthropogenic nitrogen is removed in coastal regions—essentially by denitrification taking place in the ...

Why is oxygen important for the ocean, and what is ocean deoxygenation? Oxygen is important in the ocean for the same reasons it is important on land; the plants and animals that live there require ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment ... sensitive to ocean warming, and in ...

Time, water, and geologic forces have converged to create underwater sinkholes where oxygen-poor and ... found thriving in superheated sediments deep beneath the ocean floor (Whitman et al.

Researchers have long suspected that massive volcanic eruptions undersea caused carbon dioxide (CO 2) increases, global warming and depleted oxygen ... sediment samples from the Pacific Ocean ...