The Trump administration plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a U.S. National Science Foundation network of seafloor systems, underwater gliders and moored surface platforms that feeds ocean data to researchers, policymakers, educators and mariners worldwide. Scientists said losing the system would hinder monitoring of El Niño and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, and reduce the accuracy of weather and climate monitoring in the Pacific and Atlantic. T...

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