AFP18 Jun, 2026 10:17 PM3 mins to readThe Trump administration has dumped a plan to remove monitoring devices of the Ocean Observatories Initiative after widespread opposition.The Trump administration is pausing plans to dismantle a deep-sea monitoring system after facing fierce opposition.Hundreds of monitoring devices, part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, are primarily funded by the US government.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) said on Thursday it “appreciates the concerns raised by the range of












