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

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

Researchers from Boston University have made a startling discovery: rocks are producing "dark oxygen" in a region currently ...

Adepth Minerals also criticized the researchers for not measuring whether hydrogen was created. Hydrogen would also be formed ...

The research team used deep-sea chambers that land on the seafloor and enclose the seawater, sediment, polymetallic nodules, and living organisms. They then measured how oxygen levels changed in ...

Their mandate is to determine how — and whether — to allow the nations of the Earth to mine the sea ... nodules; they knew that they could get guaranteed nodule-rich areas of the deep seabed ...

Researchers have found oxygen-producing rocks on the deep seafloor, challenging what we know about oxygen production.

The discovery raises concerns about the potential negative impacts of deep sea mining on this newly found oxygen source and the wider ... of copper and manganese nodules lying on the seabed.

But earlier this year, oceanographers discovered an entirely new source of oxygen ... concluded that the oxygen must be produced in the deep ocean itself, probably as a result of an electrochemical ...

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

They might look like pebbles strewn across the seafloor, but to the unique animals of the ocean deep, polymetallic nodules ...

Most of the seafloor observed during Dive 07 of the 2019 Southeastern U.S. Exploration was covered with manganese nodules, first tested nearly 50 years ago by Deep Sea ... a new source of ...