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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), published in The ISME Journal, sheds light on how a species ...

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.

"During that time, there was very little to no available oxygen in the oceans and higher concentrations ... especially within sediments. Understanding the energy and carbon sources used by this ...

"During that time, there was very little to no available oxygen in the oceans ... operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust, the team collected sediments containing foraminifera about 570 meters ...