We are switching off the instruments as the readings go red

This is the fish the format cannot contain, and it must be named plainly. In April, direct measurements from four deep-ocean moorings confirmed a two-decade decline in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — the current that keeps Europe temperate and the equator survivable — with scientists warning it could pass an unstoppable tipping point by mid-century. In the same season, the US administration moved to dismantle the very ocean-observation network that produced those measurements. ...