Former staff from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have created Climate.us to continue sharing climate research after federal websites were shut down.
Rebecca Lindsey, who led content for the former Climate.gov site, was fired from NOAA in February. The Trump administration later eliminated the remaining team and closed the website.
The new site launched in June and has recorded about 800,000 page views in its first two weeks. Lindsey and two other full-time staff are updating the resources with input from scientists.
Other groups are also stepping in. The American Geophysical Union has started projects to protect environmental data from political changes. Adam Smith has moved a billion-dollar disaster tracking effort to the nonprofit Climate Central.
Advocates note that nonprofits lack the reach of federal platforms. They call for stronger legal protections to prevent future losses of public data.