The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system amid record sea temperatures and fears of ocean current collapse.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative uses around 900 instruments to track ocean health, currents and chemistry in real time.
Scientists warn the decision undermines research on critical systems like Atlantic currents and creates blind spots for storm forecasting, coastal flooding and more.
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The Trump administration has announced it will dismantle a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans. The decision is sparking alarm among experts that US is taking eyes off the oceans at a dangerous time of record-breaking sea temperatures, an imminent super El Niño and fears a critical system of ocean currents could collapse, ushering in global chaos.
