Democracy Now is part of the climate mob propaganda mill. Of the thousands of ocean buoys, only 27 of the very expensive ocean buoys are being removed, because they are the pet projects of the NSF, which had its entire board of directors removed via DOGE for climate alarmism.
The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a key monitoring system for tracking the climate crisis.
Policy expert David Helvarg calls it "the most advanced system for understanding the deep ocean," which was set to continue operating for at least another 15 years. He says the Trump administration, however, is more focused on oil drilling and deep-sea mining, treating the ocean "as a gas station and a garbage dump."