US EditionMajor reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites
UNITED STATES, JUL 3 – The Trump administration cut funding and staffing in April 2025, removing access to the National Climate Assessment website, which had published five reports since 2000, officials said.
- Websites for the Fifth National Climate Assessment and the U.S. Global Change Research Program went dark Monday and Tuesday, making legally mandated reports inaccessible from federal sites.
- In the spring, the Trump administration told volunteer authors their services weren’t needed and ended the contract with the private firm coordinating the assessment site.
- University of Arizona climate scientist Kathy Jacobs said, `It’s critical for decision makers across the country to know what the science in the National Climate Assessment is`, highlighting its importance for climate preparedness.
- The White House said NASA will host the assessments, but attempts to find them on NASA's sites were unsuccessful and the agency did not respond, NASA's Bethany Stevens said all five editions will be available "though it's not clear when."
- Following the removals, two of the biggest Earth science societies announced they will pursue replacement reports, and a lawsuit has led to partial content restoration.
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Experts sound alarm as public information seemingly disappears overnight: 'This is evidence of serious tampering with the facts'
A "legally mandated," critical climate resource abruptly went dark, and scientists say its absence threatens a high cost in terms of both lives and money. What's happening? The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) began in 1989 and was formally established by Congress in 1990, tasked with monitoring and integrating data about changes to the climate. On Monday, June 30, the agency's site became inaccessible, "with no links, notes or referra…
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Pope Leo XIV will celebrate the Catholic Church's first 'green' Mass in the 'oasis' of papal summer residence Castel Gandolfo dedicated by his predecessor Francis to his seminal environmental encyclical Laudato si' on Wednesday July 9, the Vatican said Thu... (ANSA)
Pope Leo XIV has approved the introduction of a new liturgical celebration to boost global ecological awareness, the Mass for the Care of Creation that has been officially included in the Roman Missal and will be used for the first time by the U.S. and Peruvian pontiff on July 9.
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A new rite published by the Vatican will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care for the Earth, in the latest push by the 1.4 billion-member global Church to address global climate change.
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