A nonprofit team has restored the public climate information that disappeared when climate.gov was taken offline, then relaunched it under a new name: climate.us. The move keeps access open for the public and gives the project room to grow beyond a simple archive.
The shutdown followed a redirect that sent climate.gov visitors to a NOAA climate page, after the government said the move aligned with its “gold standard science” policy. That change made much of the old site’s material harder to find at the original address.
Recovered after the shutdown
Rather than let the content vanish, volunteers stepped in and worked to save the material that had been removed from public view. By June 23, the team said it had restored all of the lost content that disappeared after climate.gov was closed.
The restoration matters because it reunifies information that had been scattered or no longer accessible to the public. It also shows how quickly independent efforts can preserve digital public resources when official access changes.
From archive to independent platform
The project did not stop at recovery. The team also formed a nonprofit organization to oversee the site’s future operations.
Under climate.us, the goal is to move beyond restoring old pages. The planned next step is to build new tools and fresh educational content so the public can better understand how climate is changing.
Why the new site matters
The relaunch highlights a broader debate over access to climate data. One path pulled the federal site away from its original location, while another kept the information available through volunteer-led preservation.
For general users, climate.us now serves as an alternate way to reach material that once lived on climate.gov. It is being positioned not as a static copy, but as an independent space that can continue to evolve for public climate information.
What changed after the federal site moved
When the redirect appeared, the notice said research products previously under Climate.gov would be available on NOAA.gov/climate and affiliated sites. Even so, the change meant many older pages no longer appeared at the original web address.
That gap is what made the nonprofit restoration significant. With climate.us now live, the public regains access to content that had been pulled out of reach, while the new operators prepare a longer-term direction for the platform.