Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that ...

Rutgers University marine scientists are using New Jersey-developed tools to measure how iron shortages in Southern Ocean ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

It had been believed that oxygen could not be produced without sunlight - AYDIN MUTLU/ISTOCKPHOTO Dark oxygen is being created on the ocean floor, scientists have discovered – and it could change our ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience found evidence of oxygen production near polymetallic nodules located deep in the ocean. Called dark oxygen, this oxygen is being produced ...

For the first time, researchers have managed to isolate and directly observe individual oxygen atoms inside liquid water, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Off the coast of southeastern China, one particular fish species is booming: the ...

Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In ...

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 follows last year's discovery of ...

The oxidative power makes atomic oxygen useful for a number of fields and industries, but scientists don’t know all the ...