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Deep sea rocks suggest oxygen can be made without photosynthesis
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Deep sea rocks suggest oxygen can be made without photosynthesis

Raw Story  

Oxygen, the molecule that supports intelligent life as we know it, is largely made by plants. They found that this “dark” oxygen production at the seafloor seems to only happen in the presence of mineral concentrates called polymetallic nodules and deposits of metals called metalliferous sediments. The authors also suggested that the amount of oxygen created may fluctuate depending on …

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The deep sea is home to “dark oxygen”
5 months ago

The deep sea is home to “dark oxygen”

The Economist  

Listen to this story. Any oxygen found in regions where photosynthesis is impossible—such as the abyssal seafloor, a pitch-black realm up to 6,000 metres deep—was thought to be surface gas on the move. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, however, Andrew Sweetman at the Scottish Association for Marine Science and his colleagues reveal that some is, in fact, “dark …

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Scientists discover ‘dark’ oxygen being produced more than 13,000 feet below the ocean surface
5 months ago

Scientists discover ‘dark’ oxygen being produced more than 13,000 feet below the ocean surface

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. NERC Smartex project, SAMS, the Abyssline project, iAtlantic Sampling the seafloor Sweetman first made the unexpected observation that “dark” oxygen was being produced on the seafloor while assessing marine biodiversity in an area that’s earmarked for mining potato-size polymetallic nodules. NHMDeepSea Group/Natural History Museum, UK The pristine ecosystem, 16,400 feet below the …

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A celebrity-studded L.A. water district has a very big drought idea: Seafloor desalination
1 year, 3 months ago

A celebrity-studded L.A. water district has a very big drought idea: Seafloor desalination

LA Times  

The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District is looking to harvest drinking water from desalination pods placed on the ocean floor. The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District recently partnered with California-based OceanWell to study the feasibility of harvesting drinking water from desalination pods placed on the ocean floor, several miles off the coast of California. The pilot project, which will begin …

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Microbes on Earth's Seafloor Can Help Understand Secrets of Life Forms on Mars: Study
3 years, 9 months ago

Microbes on Earth's Seafloor Can Help Understand Secrets of Life Forms on Mars: Study

News 18  

The ocean floor among its many secrets also contains many organisms about which marine biologists and researchers are learning something new daily. A group of scientists from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography have found that the microbes rely on a peculiar food source, hydrogen produced from radiolysis of water. The researchers found that the seafloor is …

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Microbes trapped under seafloor for 100 million years revived
4 years, 4 months ago

Microbes trapped under seafloor for 100 million years revived

India TV News  

A team of scientists from Japan and America has successfully revived tiny microbes trapped in a lifeless zone of the seabed for more than 100 million years. "We wanted to know how long the microbes could sustain their life in a near-absence of food," said microbiologist Yuki Morono from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, who led the …

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