Nonprofit launches climate.us to restore climate.gov data

A nonprofit organization led by former government scientists has launched a new public website to restore access to a vast trove of climate data and reports that became difficult to find after the federal government's climate.gov site was effectively shuttered last year. The new site, climate.us, went fully active on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, as a comprehensive clone of the original government portal.

The initiative is a direct response to actions taken by the Trump administration. In June 2025, the web address for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's climate.gov site was redirected to a different NOAA page. A message posted at the redirected address stated the action was in compliance with an executive order and a related memorandum on "Restoring Gold Standard Science," implying the prior climate research did not meet that standard. The move made years of climate information functionally inaccessible to the public, according to former staff.

Rebecca Lindsey, the managing director of climate.us and a former NOAA employee who was laid off in February 2025 amid broader federal staffing cuts, described the original action as hiding the front door to a trove of...