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E.U. Steps Up Ocean Monitoring as Trump Administration Backs Away

3 June 2026 at 21:33
Days after the U.S. said it would kill a network of ocean monitors, European officials pledged to invest more in their version, calling it a “necessity.”

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The European plan to invest roughly $107 million comes as the U.S. has said it would dismantle a sprawling network of sensors.

Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Termination of Ocean Monitoring Observatories

2 June 2026 at 21:53
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

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Recovering a surface buoy — part of a network of moorings, buoys and gliders making observations of the ocean — from the Irminger Sea off Greenland’s coast, in 2021.
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