On June 18, after significant bipartisan backlash from members of Congress, scientists, and the public, NSF announced in a ...

NSF pauses plans to remove Ocean Observatories Initiative sensors after a bipartisan Senate push led by Sens. Merkley and Murkowski. Lawmakers call it a win for fisheries, weather forecasting and ...

National Science Foundation officials said Thursday that they would no longer move forward with plans to remove underwater equipment used to collect data on weather events, marine ecosystems, and ...

The government has abandoned plans to dismantle a deep-ocean observation network that scientists have used to track changes ...

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade ...

Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are growing increasingly concerned that these lights could be blinding us to the ...

Researchers from Italy, Chile and Galicia have studied and compared the light pollution levels at major astronomical observatories across the world. The study shows that light is polluting the sky ...