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.

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…

Critics say the move to retire the $360 million system doesn't make sense. The National Science Foundation cites new scientific priorities.

Alaska's multibillion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities at risk.