by Amy Goodman | Jun 10, 2026 | Climate Crisis, deep sea mining, ecosystem, El Niño, Fishing, Fossil Fuels, Interview, NOAA, ocean, oceanic warming, offshore drilling, Project 2025, Trump Administration
We’re joined by ocean policy expert David Helvarg to discuss the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean. The program’s closure, proposed in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook for Trump’s second administration, involves the decommissioning of a vast network of ocean floor sensors that collect data on…
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by Matt Simon | Oct 19, 2025 | Climate Change, Climate Crisis, coral bleaching, Coral Reef, Marine life, News, ocean, tipping points
Global temperature rise may feel like it’s gradual, but the changes it brings can turn out to be sudden, massive, and self-reinforcing. These changes are what scientists call tipping points. When a tipping point is reached, an Earth system abruptly and dramatically changes, often irreversibly, like the Amazon rainforest turning into a savanna — a point of no return that is already perilously close.
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