Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

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A scientific debate has emerged regarding the possibility of producing 'dark oxygen' without sunlight, through metallic ...

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 ...

The discovery questions long-held assumptions about the origins of life on Earth Environmentalists said the presence of dark oxygen showed just how little is known about life at these extreme ...

Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called "dark oxygen" is being produced in the lightless abyss of the seabed. The discovery -- detailed last July in the ...

“Deep-sea discovery calls into question the origins of life,” the Scottish Association for Marine Science said in a press release to accompany the publication of the research. Environmentalists said ...

A scientific debate has emerged regarding the possibility of producing 'dark oxygen' without sunlight ... "Greenpeace has long campaigned to stop deep sea mining from beginning in the Pacific ...

"Deep-sea discovery calls into question the origins of life," the Scottish Association for Marine Science said in a press ...

The discovery of dark oxygen has shifted our understanding of the deep sea and potentially life on Earth. But we still don’t know for sure how this oxygen is produced, and to what extent ...