Scientists sound alarm on World Oceans Day as Trump axes deep-sea monitoring
Scientists say the cuts will weaken climate and storm forecasts as more than 900 instruments are taken out of the ocean network.
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Ocean monitoring is in trouble: without the US, it’s up to Europe and Asia to avoid losing sight of the world’s deep-sea ecosystems
The world relies on a modest number of countries to keep watch over the ocean. That arrangement is starting to fail. Europe and Asia must now decide whether to let the system unravel, or to take it up together. Right now, in every ocean basin on Earth, a global network of instruments measures the state of the sea. Research ships steam along oceanographic transects from surface to seafloor. Anchored buoys watch the tropical oceans for the first s…
Alaskans Reel From the Loss of National Science Foundation Ocean-Monitoring Instruments
In the nation’s fastest-warming state with a multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and storm-threatened coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decommission of a deepwater sensor system is ill-timed and wrong-headed.
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Modern GhanaScientists sound alarm on World Oceans Day as Trump axes deep-sea monitoring
A vast network of marine sensors is being dismantled by the Trump administration, and other programs are at risk. This will result in a loss of data essential to understand warming or predict extreme events, according to researchers.
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