Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean seemed to produce oxygen without sunlight ...

A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...

About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean. But, before this discovery, it was understood that it was made by marine plants photosynthesising - something that requires sunlight.

Scientists have recently discovered a strange phenomenon, dubbed “dark oxygen” in the deep sea. A ground-breaking study published Monday found that oxygen is being produced in complete ...

Professor Andrew Sweetman and his colleagues set out to measure seafloor respiration but instead stumbled upon a hidden ecosystem capable of producing oxygen. The most crucial ...

Scientists estimate that at least 50 percent of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean, a large majority of which is from phytoplankton. In addition to being a crucial source of ...

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 ...

Most people learn in high school science class that oxygen generally comes from plants through the photosynthesis process. In ...

But before we dive into their fishy findings, let's understand why ocean mixing matters. Believe it or not, half the Earth 's oxygen comes from ocean plants and algae, which need sunlight to thrive.

The discovery that metallic rocks are apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean's seabed challenges the idea that ...