The U.S. Antarctic research program is in trouble, as canceled field seasons imperil data sets and demoralize researchers (www.science.org)

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“We’re the canary in the coal mine, and there’s lots of coal dust in the air,” says Schofield, a biological oceanographer at Rutgers University who first came to Antarctica as a graduate student in the early 1990s. “And just when we need to know even more about what’s happening to the canary, it feels like the United States is in a period of retreat.”

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