Oxygen-without-light discovery challenges deep ocean preconceptions
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 25, 2024
“The discovery that a process associated with polymetallic nodules is producing oxygen, in an area targeted by the deep-sea mining industry, provides further support on the urgent need for a moratorium,” said the DSCC. Scientists appear to have found that oxygen is being produced in the deep sea through a process associated with polymetallic nodules on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean, in the complete absence of sunlight.
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