Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source ...

“There’s already overwhelming evidence that strip mining deep-sea nodule fields will destroy ... knowing they may be a significant source of oxygen production.” Prof Sweetman added ...

In a world where scientific discoveries continue to reshape our understanding of nature, a recent finding from the abyssal ...

If confirmed, this would imply that our planet contains a source of oxygen that doesn ... economic value of these nodules, which have attracted the attention of deep-sea mining companies for ...

The Metals Company has a major economic interest in mining the manganese nodules required for battery production in the deep sea. Oxygen production in the deep sea would stand in the way of these ...

A study in the journal Nature Geoscience suggested that deep-sea nodules, which contain metals such as nickel critical for electric-vehicle batteries, produce oxygen despite the absence of light ...

As a deep-sea ... with nodules, without nodules, with microbes, without microbes, and meticulously checked many times the possibility of introducing an external oxygen source into the experiment.

The destruction of these oxygen-producing nodules could have severe consequences for deep-sea ecosystems, potentially creating more "dead zones" where life struggles to recover.

Researchers studied the fate of the material produced by Posidonia seagrass meadows. This study, carried out in the Mediterranean Sea at STARESO, shows that the dead leaves of what is commonly known ...

Thousands of genes from deep-sea marine ... hydrogen and oxygen. Where might an electrical charge be generated at the bottom of the ocean? Perhaps on the surfaces of polymetallic nodules, rock ...