A recent studypublished in Nature Geoscienceexplores the future of Earth’s atmosphere, revealing that a dramatic decline in ...

which could have affected oxygen production and consumption rates. This research provides the first mechanistic explanation ...

It’s one of the earliest things you learn in elementary school science class—Earth’s life-sustaining ... explanation of the ocean’s dark oxygen production.” The existence and possible ...

"It's possible that a similar type of competition between microbes contributed to the delay in oxygen production on the early Earth," Klatt explained. To demonstrate this hypothesis, the team ...

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Earth’s oxygen is something of a puzzle. Until recently, scientists believed it is produced entirely by photosynthesis — plants using sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and ...

These polymetallic nodules are rich in valuable metals such as nickel, copper, cobalt, manganese and rare earth elements ... of the ocean's dark oxygen production." This discovery that the ...

A startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean’s seabed, where no light can penetrate, was a scientific bombshell. Initial ...