In mid-2024, scientists reported a surprising discovery: oxygen being produced on the deep seabed in complete darkness, ...

Far beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in one of Earth’s least explored regions, scientists have found a surprising new source of oxygen — one that forms in complete darkness. The finding, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules ...