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ocean health
Coverage of ocean health in the Nexus archive.
- Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system
The Trump administration plans to dismantle the $368m Ocean Observatories Initiative, a deep-sea monitoring system providing critical climate and ocean data. The National Science Foundation announced it has initiated the descoping of the network, which includes over 900 instruments tracking ocean health and biodiversity.
- The ocean's health may depend on a tiny microbe inside fish
Tiny microbes in marine fish guts may help produce calcium carbonate, a mineral critical for ocean health and carbon storage. The discovery reveals a partnership between fish and bacteria, challenging previous beliefs that fish alone managed this process.