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Climate.us Restores NOAA Climate.gov Archive
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Former members of NOAA's Climate.gov team and volunteer scientists have relaunched much of the site's archive as Climate.us, an independent nonprofit climate-information platform. The service restores climate news, data pathways, visual indicators, educational materials, and access to the Fifth National Climate Assessment while adding expert-reviewed content. The effort reflects growing concern that changes to federal staffing, funding, and websites could interrupt public access to climate knowledge, while also raising questions about whether a nonprofit can sustain the scale and authority of a federal resource.
First Article: 06/23/26
Latest Article: 07/22/26
Summary
- Climate.gov was shut down and redirected after federal actions affecting NOAA climate staff and online resources.
- Climate.us restores a 15-year archive of climate stories, maps, data pathways, visual indicators, and classroom materials.
- The nonprofit also restored access to the Fifth National Climate Assessment and plans new science-reviewed explainers.
- More than 80 scientists are volunteering as reviewers, while thousands of small donors support the platform.
- The project is intended to provide a durable independent alternative, but it lacks the federal government's staffing, funding, and institutional scale.
- The relaunch is part of a broader effort by scientific and nonprofit groups to preserve climate datasets and public-facing research.
History
The story has been sharpened from a general restoration of Climate.gov material into a more specific account of Climate.us as an independent nonprofit relaunch that now includes the Fifth National Climate Assessment and new expert-reviewed content. The emphasis also shifts toward the broader risk that federal staffing and website changes could permanently weaken public access to climate information.
The story has shifted from a broadly described rebuild of Climate.gov into a clearer account of Climate.us as a nonprofit-backed, operational replacement sustained by volunteer scientific review and private funding. The new version emphasizes continuity of climate information infrastructure under political disruption more than the original restoration effort itself.
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