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 ...

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.

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

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team ...

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 ...

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 ...

This charge may come from the difference in electric ... chambers at multiple locations. Typically, oxygen levels decline the ...

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