Mining activity could negatively affect the seafloor ecosystem, scientists warn. Rare metals on deep sea and ocean floors miles below the surface produce "dark oxygen," and mining these minerals could ...

Gerard Barron, chairman and CEO of The Metals Company, holds a nodule retreived from the seafloor in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean in 2021. The company plans to mine for these ...

Potato-sized lumps of metal on the seafloor are generating oxygen, a new study has found. Scientists previously believed that oxygen was strictly formed as a byproduct of photosynthesizing plants.

These nodules can act like batteries that split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen In an unexpected twist, metal-rich nodules found on the seafloor are generating oxygen, new research suggests. This ...