US science agency halts removals from 900-instrument ocean network (opens in new tab)

The U.S. National Science Foundation said Thursday it would stop removing or reducing equipment from the Ocean Observatories Initiative, reversing a plan announced in May to pull hundreds of deep-ocean instruments from service. The decision followed a Senate vote on Wednesday to block removal of the network and objections from scientists and lawmakers in both parties. The OOI, established in 2016, includes about 900 instruments in parts of the Pacific and Atlantic and was built at a reported ...