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U.S. Cuts Antarctica’s Only Research Icebreaker Ship under Trump Budget Squeeze


The National Science Foundation will stop operating the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker and slash polar science funding by 70 percent, devastating Antarctic research

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