NCSE Teacher Ambassador Jeff Grant at the 2024 Climate of Hope conference.
"As the school year kicked into gear this fall, educators across the country have been reworking lesson plans and searching for reliable sources of up-to-date scientific information" owing to the federal government's dismantling of climate.gov, Science (October 3, 2025) reported.
The article began with a scene of Jeff Grant, a high school biology teacher in Downers Grove, Illinois, and one of NCSE's Teacher Ambassadors, scrambling "to download as many graphs and data from the website as he could."
Earlier, when the closure of climate.gov seemed imminent, NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch told The Hechinger Report (July 17, 2025) that the closure would "make it harder for teachers to do a good job in educating their students about climate change."
Science added, "The cuts go beyond climate.gov to sites explicitly designed for educators, such as the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN), a University of Colorado Boulder project funded by NOAA."
CLEAN received NCSE's Friend of the Planet award in 2017 in recognition of its curated collection of resources on climate and energy science and its coordination of a network of climate change education stakeholders. But now, after its defunding, it is in hibernation.
"Former NOAA employees hope to mitigate the loss of climate.gov," however. The website is currently being reconstructed on climate.us, which describes itself as "independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics."
Referring to climate.gov's previous content, Rebecca Lindsey, the former program manager of climate.gov and a member of the climate.us team, commented, "It's absolutely critical that teachers continue to have access to that type of resource."
