The discovery of dark oxygen at an abyssal plain on the ocean floor generated a lot of interest. Could this oxygen source ...

The deep sea holds many secrets, with more than 80% of it being unmapped, unexplored, and unseen by any human in history. The discovery of "dark oxygen" found 13,000 feet under the sea has added yet ...

Created over millions of years, manganese nodules along the abyssal plain contain many of the metals needed to make batteries ...

It is unfortunate that the study that found “dark oxygen” produced by metallic nodules on the seabed is having such a quick and negative effect on potential deep-sea mining. This form of ...

Dark oxygen is produced by manganese nodules on the ocean floor ... in principle exceeding the reported macrofaunal densities at depths of ~ 4 km in global deep-sea surveys,” the authors write. When ...

A deep-sea mining operation that recently took place off the coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has raised alarm bells for ...

Surangel S. Whipps Jr., president of the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau, wants more countries to join him in calling for ...

Researchers are screening actinobacteria found in Arctic Sea invertebrates to find potential antibiotic candidates.