🧊 NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker | Science | AAAS
｢ The National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. The move, which has so far not drawn opposition from Congress, is alarming polar scientists ｣
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-plans-abrupt-end-lone-u-s-antarctic-research-icebreaker
