Highlights from the Change Log: NOAA removes “Teaching Climate” resources from Climate.gov
Welcome! This post is part of the EDGI Website Monitoring Team’s “Highlights from the Change Log” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight interesting changes we have observed in the language used on, or access to, federal websites. We want to share these changes to encourage public engagement with and discussion of their significance, as well as understanding of the ephemeral nature of website information. These website changes happened in April 2025 and feature the deletion of “Teaching Climate” resources from NOAA’s Climate.gov website footer.
What happened:
In early April, NOAA’s Climate.gov website removed four links from the “Teaching Climate” section of its footer. The links led to diverse educational resources about climate change: “Demos & Experiments,” “Interactive Tools,” “Multimedia,” and “Resources.” While the webpages the links led to are still technically active, most of them have been almost entirely stripped of their content. The “Demos & Experiments” link is the only one that remains mostly intact, directing to a cleanet.org webpage that still hosts a collection of searchable educational resources related to climate and energy. However, the “Interactive Tools,” “Multimedia,” and “Resources” links, which led to collections of hundreds of resources, now lead to pages displaying the following: “0 results- No documents found. Please refine your search term or change the filters you have set.” While some of these resources still exist on non-government websites, the links that hosted them on Climate.gov now return “Page not Found” messages.
Why we think it’s interesting:
As we approach and surpass critical climate deadlines, it is more important than ever that the public can access information on how climate change will impact daily life. However, the Trump administration is systematically obscuring this information. As this example shows, removals are not only of climate science information, but of practical information connecting climate change to impacts on communities. In a striking example of this, NOAA removed the 2024 Climate Literacy Guide from its website in February, a resource that was one of the most widely used for helping the public understand and respond to the climate crisis. This targeted information suppression reflects the Trump administration’s broader attacks on climate science, equity, and civic engagement. Information, tools, and other resources at the intersection of these issues provide critical means for people, especially those at the frontlines of climate impacts and injustices, to understand and respond to a changing climate.
More details:
The climate.gov website before and after the links were removed:
The “Interactive Tools” link that was removed from the climate.gov footer:
The “Multimedia” link that was removed from the climate.gov footer:
The “Resources” link that was removed from the climate.gov footer:
