The vast, sunlit waters of the ocean’s surface, known as the photic zone, nurture 90% of marine life. Sunlight and moonlight ...

Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...

A new insight into global photosynthesis, the chemical process governing how ocean and land plants absorb and release carbon dioxide, has been revealed in research that will assist scientists to ...

making photosynthesis impossible. Instead, the oxygen originates from natural mineral deposits on the ocean floor that act as weak batteries capable of producing enough voltage to split seawater i ...

The study shows that photosynthesis in the ocean is possible under much lower light conditions, and can therefore take place at much greater depths, than previously assumed. Photosynthesis can ...

Warming of the upper ocean may stimulate plankton metabolism, enhancing photosynthesis. This effect has received little attention, but new research suggests that it could be important enough to ...

Researchers scouring the lightless landscape of the Pacific Ocean floor think they've observed ... it was thought that oxygen was created only through photosynthesis, a process that requires ...

A new way of producing oxygen has been discovered in microbes that live in the darkest depths of the ocean. Most oxygen on Earth is produced via photosynthesis, which requires light. But Don ...

The microscopic marine organisms, which serve as an important food source in the ocean, use photosynthesis to turn sunlight into cellular fuel. But nearly twice as much of the sunlight energy ...

The other half is produced via photosynthesis on land by trees, shrubs, grasses, and other plants. As green plants die and fall to the ground or sink to the ocean floor, a small fraction of their ...

A long-standing puzzle in ocean photosynthesis was why phytoplankton failed to grow fast in parts of the Pacific Ocean; after all, the microscopic plants have access to plenty of carbon dioxide ...

The results were particularly surprising because photosynthesis in the Arctic Ocean took place under snow-covered sea ice, which only allows a few photons of incident sunlight to pass through ...