The Trump administration took down climate.gov, but volunteers and former staff preserved the data and relaunched it as a nonprofit site (climate.us), restoring lost climate information and planning to expand resources.
<p>Over decades, researchers in the US government and programs it sponsored built up a tremendous number of climate resources, from comprehensive analyses to massive datasets to basic explainers meant to inform the public. And people within the government built the climate.gov website to make it all accessible. But if you try to navigate there today, you get redirected to the climate page of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and are greeted with the following message:</p>
<blockquote><p>In compliance with Executive Order 14303 (“Restoring Gold Standard Science”), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s June 23, 2025 Memorandum (“Agency Guidance for Implementing Gold Standard Science in the Conduct & Management of Scientific Activities”), 15 USC § 2904 (“National Climate Program”), 15 USC § 2934 (“National Global Change Research Plan”), and 33 USC § 893a (“NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Science Education Programs”), you have been redirected to NOAA.gov. Future research products previously housed under Climate.gov will be available at NOAA.gov/climate and its affiliate websites.</p></blockquote>
<p>Climate.gov was essentially gone, and the team that deleted implied that it happened because climate research somehow failed to uphold what the administration was calling "gold standard science."</p>
<p>But the people who put together climate.gov didn't go away. While the government didn't hesitate to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/climate-disasters-that-cost-billions-will-go-untracked-thanks-to-trump-cuts/">delete inconvenient climate information</a>, dedicated volunteers outside the government managed to preserve copies of much of the material, which the federal government is prohibited from copyrighting. The volunteers and former climate.gov admins got together and launched <a href="https://www.climate.us">climate.us</a>. On Tuesday, the team <a href="https://www.climate.us/news-features/feed/climateus-launches-independent-website-trusted-climate-information">announced</a> that it had completed the project to restore everything lost when climate.gov shut down.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/">Read full article</a></p>
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# US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit
Source: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/)
But the people who put together climate\.gov didn’t go away\. While the government didn’t hesitate to[delete inconvenient climate information](https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/climate-disasters-that-cost-billions-will-go-untracked-thanks-to-trump-cuts/), dedicated volunteers outside the government managed to preserve copies of much of the material, which the federal government is prohibited from copyrighting\. The volunteers and former climate\.gov admins got together and launched[climate\.us](https://www.climate.us/)\. On Tuesday, the team[announced](https://www.climate.us/news-features/feed/climateus-launches-independent-website-trusted-climate-information)that it had completed the project to restore everything lost when climate\.gov shut down\.
> The website features Climate\.gov’s 15\-year collection of climate news and stories, expert blogs, visual status reports on key climate indicators, maps and data pathways, climate literacy resources, classroom materials, and restored access to the Fifth National Climate Assessment\.
The team behind it, which includes several key people who built climate\.gov, says it’s not satisfied with simply restoring what was lost\. Having established a nonprofit to maintain the new website, the organization will shift its focus to what it calls “long\-term public service\.” It plans to establish new resources and develop additional materials to help explain the changing climate to the public\.
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