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As Trump Administration Defunds Ocean Monitoring, the E.U. Fills Gaps (The New York Times)

The Trump Administration’s decision to dismantle the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s decade-long $368 million deep-ocean observation system has led the European Union to bolster its own monitoring of the seas. The now-shuttered NSF program had kept tabs on marine ecosystems and measured the effects of climate change since 2016. NSF spokesman Michael England observed that the move “aligns with NSF’s wider strategy to have a nimbler approach to prioritizing support for evolving scientific priorities and emerging technologies.”