Languages: English. Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor. The initiative ...

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team behind it is launching a new project to confirm and explain the findings ...

Ice is visible in the Bering Sea on January 22, 2020, from a small plane airplane near the western Alaska coast. Ice is visible in the Bering Sea on January 22, 2020, from a small plane airplane ...

Uncovering dark oxygen revealed just how little is known about the deep ocean, and the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, or CCZ, in particular. The region is being explored for the deep-sea mining of rare ...

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of the crab disappeared and the fishery was shut ...

meaning it could open to bottom-trawl fishing as the Bering Sea rapidly warms and groundfish expand northward. “The study is designed to repeatedly damage an area of the ocean floor and then check in ...

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of the crab disappeared and the fishery was shut down in October 2022. This season’s first catch was delivered on Jan. 15.