A new study published in Global Change Biology reveals that over 20% of the world’s oceans have grown significantly darker between 2003 and 2022. This widespread phenomenon, driven by a range of ...

Deep in the ocean, scientists discovered the presence of "dark" oxygen, which is oxygen produced without photosynthesis. Oxygen was previously thought to require light to be produced; the new ...

Over 20% of the global ocean has darkened in the past two decades, shrinking critical light zones that support marine life.

Some creatures in nature don’t just hide in their surroundings– they actually glow. This glow, called bioluminescence, is a ...

The vast, sunlit waters of the ocean’s surface, known as the photic zone, nurture 90% of marine life. Sunlight and moonlight ...

Many unanswered questions remain about how dark oxygen is produced and what role it plays in the deep-sea ecosystem. Understanding how the ocean floor produces oxygen may also shed light on the ...

But the recent discovery of what researchers call “dark oxygen” may ... at the bottom of the ocean appear capable of generating oxygen without any source of light. These nodules are found ...

Called dark oxygen, this oxygen is being produced without light. "The conventional view ... asterisk onto strategies for sea-floor mining as ocean-floor faunal diversity in nodule-rich areas ...