The research that gave rise to the dark oxygen discovery was partly funded by a Canadian deep-sea mining business, The Metals ...

A newly discovered mechanism could explain the shock finding last year that oxygen is produced by metallic nodules on the ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

Environmentalists said the presence of dark oxygen showed just how little is known about life at these extreme depths, and supported their case that deep-sea mining posed unacceptable ecological ...