Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️Oxygen being produced on ocean floor - mining company isn't happy
Metallic nodules on ocean floor might be producing oxygen f. seawater
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/oxygen-ocean-study-conflict-1.7273929
Evidence of dark oxygen production at abyssal seafloor
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01480-8
Deep home to “dark oxygen”
Nodules on seabed, rather than photosynthesis, source of the gas
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/07/24/the-deep-sea-is-home-to-dark-oxygen
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Researchers say oxygen is being produced on the ocean floor. The mining company funding them isn't happy | CBC News
The discovery of oxygen being produced on the ocean floor — apparently by ancient lumps of metal — has put the scientists behind the landmark study at odds with the Canada-based mining company that funded them.