Trump administration plans to dismantle ocean monitoring system

Fishing communities and climate researchers would face reduced resources and data access, impacting livelihoods and scientific understanding of climate impacts.

For a decade, a $386 million network of instruments has listened to the ocean — tracking its temperatures, currents, and slow transformations — providing the kind of patient, continuous observation that climate science requires. The Trump administration's proposed budget would silence that network, erasing not just the infrastructure but the unbroken thread of data it has woven, a loss that cannot be reconstructed after the fact. At a moment when the ocean's behavior grows more consequential by the year, the decision treats essential planetary observation as a line item rather than a foundatio

Trump administration plans to dismantle ocean monitoring system

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