Do deep-sea nodules produce oxygen in the dark? Experts debate new findings – The Times of India
Polymetallic nodules and an abyssal urchin (AFP) A debate has erupted within the scientific community over whether the so-called “dark oxygen” can be made without sunlight, by lumpy metallic formations in the ocean’s darkest depths.In a research, published in Nature Geoscience last July, scientists had suggested that these nodules, comparable to potatoes in size, could…