Update June 18: NSF pauses OOI dismantling after Senate passes bipartisan bill. Here's what happened, what's next, and why the fight isn't over.
The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a $386 million network of 900 deep-sea sensors built to run for 30 years. Congress is calling it illegal. Scientists are calling it catastrophic. Here’s what OOI actually does,…