Trump administration backs off plan to end ocean monitoring system • The New York Times (opens in new tab)

Maxine Joselow: The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368m ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, bowing to a bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill. The National Science Foundation had said in May that it would begin removing hundreds of underwater instruments this month that collect data on coastal flooding, marine heat waves and other climate and weather events. But the agency announced on Thursday that it will pause e...