A study analyzing these modules reveals that these rocky lumps are capable of producing “dark oxygen” 4,000 meters below sea ...

The discovery of dark oxygen clearly has potential implications for the deep-sea mining industry. Deep-sea mining would extract polymetallic nodules that contain metals such as manganese, nickel and ...

A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when ...

And because this is one of the lowest tides this August, the water has drawn back like a curtain to expose an ecosystem ...

darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called "dark oxygen" is being produced in the ...

But it remains a mystery as to how so much life could have flourished in the dark ocean depths ... were a very impoverished ecosystem because, you know, normally a marine ecosystem is fed by ...

Brussels / Kiel. Led by Professor Dr Sylvia Sander of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on ...

Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

Credit: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute A chunk of ice has split from its Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a bustling, never-before-seen ecosystem underneath. The seabed community, which ...

Sustained growth of blue economy at risk from multiple threats, including climate change and territorial disputes.