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- The U.S. Global Change Research Program’s website, globalchange.gov, was taken down along with information on how global warming is affecting the country.
- President Trump has criticized the government’s handling of climate science, saying federal agencies have used a “worst-case scenario” of warming.
- One climate scientist says the website had valuable “scientific information that the American taxpayers paid for, and it’s their right to have it.”
The Trump administration on Monday shut down a federal website that had presented congressionally mandated reports and research on climate change, drawing rebukes from scientists who said it will hinder the nation’s efforts to prepare for worsening droughts, floods and heat waves.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program’s website, globalchange.gov, was taken down along with all five versions of the National Climate Assessment report and extensive information on how global warming is affecting the country.
“They’re public documents. It’s scientific censorship at its worst,” said Peter Gleick, a California water and climate scientist who was one of the authors of the first National Climate Assessment in 2000. “This is the modern version of book burning.”
The climate reports were required by Congress, and there will still be alternative ways of finding them even without the website, Gleick said. “But this information will be harder and harder for the American public to find.”
The White House didn’t immediately provide comments about the removal of the website.
In May, Trump signed an executive order saying that his administration is committed to “restoring a gold standard for science to ensure that federally funded research is transparent, rigorous,” and that federal decisions are informed by “the most credible, reliable, and impartial scientific evidence available.”
The president cited an example relating to climate science, saying federal agencies previously used a “worst-case scenario” of warming “based on highly unlikely assumptions.”
The U.S. Global Change Research Program was established under a 1990 law, which also mandated that climate assessments be prepared every four years. In April, however, the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of scientists and other experts who had begun to write the latest National Climate Assessment report.
“This is scientific information that the American taxpayers paid for, and it’s their right to have it,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University who was an author of four previous versions of the climate assessment report. “It’s information that I, as a scientist, can say is absolutely critical to making good decisions for the future, whether you’re a farmer, a homeowner, a business owner, a city manager, or anyone really who wants to ensure a safe and resilient future for themselves and for their children.”
Hayhoe noted the 1990 law mandates that the program’s research findings be available to all federal agencies and departments, and that the National Climate Assessments be available digitally.
Hayhoe said the website’s many resources had included an interactive atlas of projected changes in hot and cold days, rainfall amounts and other effects per degree of warming.
“Climate is changing faster than any time in human history, and we know that if we don’t adapt, if we don’t build resilience into all of our systems — our food and water systems, our infrastructure and our health systems — that we will suffer the consequences,” Hayhoe said.
She said the National Climate Assessments have helped “bridge the physiological distance” for Americans.
“It tells people in your region, here is what is already happening and here is what is going to happen, and here is how it is affecting your home, your insurance rates, your water, your food, the plants and animals that you see around you,” she said.
Until Monday, the website globalchange.gov made available more than 200 publications. They included the research program’s yearly reports to Congress and studies on the Arctic, agriculture and human health. A few were republished reports from other organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The site also hosted dozens of webpages, educational podcasts and videos on topics including sea level rise, greenhouse gases, biodiversity and drought.
The top item on the homepage was the Fifth National Climate Assessment, which it described as “the preeminent source of authoritative information on the risks, impacts, and responses to climate change in the United States.”
But the Trump administration has cut funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which oversees the assessments.
Around April 10, a small yellow banner appeared at the top of the site, reading: “The operations and structure of the [U.S. Global Change Research Program] are currently under review.”
Previous versions of the website can still be found using the nonprofit Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which keeps snapshots of sites to help track changes.
The shutdown of the website comes after the Trump administration also took down another site, climate.gov, which had been maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That occurred after much of the staff that had worked on the site were reportedly dismissed. (The climate.gov website now redirects users to noaa.gov/climate.)
Gleick said the new NOAA website is a “pale substitute” for the extensive information that was previously available. He said he believes the removal of websites with scientific research on global warming, driven by fossil fuels and rising levels of greenhouse gases, appears aimed at hiding the risks from the public.
Hayhoe and other climate scientists said that following the dismissal of the team that had been working on the Sixth National Climate Assessment, they still don’t know what the Trump administration’s plans are for the next congressionally required report.
“The deeper threat to the country is that we won’t do the new assessments that are necessary to understand the latest research on climate threats to the country,” Gleick said. “It seems like anything climate related is being either cut to the bone or completely eliminated, with no assessment of its value or importance.”
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“Globally, in females IDA is the leading cause of years of life lost due to disability”
In part because doctors just don’t take it or the side effects of oral iron seriously.
In part because doctors just don’t take it or the side effects of oral iron seriously.
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A crisis of communicable diseases is unfolding in North America, just as Canada’s health systems’ responses are being hampered by the dismantling of public health and research infrastructure in the United States. Coordinated attacks on US health institutions by the country’s executive office have drastically reduced their capacity to collect, interpret, and share data in the service of public health delivery. This coincides with a concerning spread of novel and existing communicable diseases across the continent, including in Canada. Recent CMAJ articles have highlighted specific pathogens and urge that Canada’s communicable disease surveillance and public health response capacity be strengthened.1,2 That this crisis has occurred in tandem with a misinformation epidemic has further challenged health care systems. Canada must address both problems.
Rates of syphilis and HIV in Canada have risen sharply, and more measles cases have been tracked in Canada — and now in Ontario alone — than in all of the US since February 2025.3–5 Livestock are being culled across the country because of avian influenza.6 Vertical transmissions of infections have also increased substantially, each its own preventable tragedy. From 1993 to 2004, only 1–4 cases of congenital syphilis were reported in Canada per year; from 2018 to 2023, more than 50 cases were reported annually.1,7 Rising rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis, hepatitis B, and imported Oropouche are also expected.8 Infectious disease outbreaks tend to disproportionately affect marginalized populations, which presents an additional challenge for Canada’s health systems to address.
The dismantling of US health institutions includes the near halving of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s budget and legislated reduction of its mandate, a 40% reduction in the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the planned retrenchment of tens of thousands of workers from the federal Department of Health and Human Services.9 Programs to track pandemic threats and mitigate the increasing spread of diseases such as avian influenza and HIV have been decimated, which will affect the reliability of data available for long-term estimation of trends and response planning, in addition to the human cost.10 Cuts have included actions to paralyze evidence-based science, such as firing of personnel with the skills to develop tests for rapidly evolving diseases.10 This could affect, for example, the Canadian preclinical trials to treat filoviruses (e.g., Ebola virus) that depend on the import of antibodies generated by American scientists working in labs funded by the NIH.10,11 These actions pose immediate and long-term risks to the health of neighbouring countries and to global health.
Canadian governments should act on long-standing calls to strengthen Canada’s health surveillance systems to better support public health and health care action domestically.12 National interoperability and data exchange between electronic medical records, electronic health records, and hospital information systems can be supported under the guidance of the Pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework and other collaborative organizations.13,14 Equity stratifiers must be collected in surveillance systems by dividing data into population subgroups for analysis, based on demographic, social, economic, or geographic descriptors, focusing on the 8 standards of the Canadian Institute of Health Information’s health inequality toolkit.15 Canada can also work to better meet the obligations of the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations by clarifying national rates of vaccine coverage and tracking patterns of antimicrobial resistance.16 Addressing structural determinants of health by collaborating with communities to co-design effective interventions is crucial. Plain-language translation on the evolving climate of infectious disease will help.
Misinformation that undermines public health efforts is not a new challenge. The Canadian Medical Association’s 2025 Health and Media Tracking Survey reported that, in 2023, 43% of people in Canada were highly susceptible to believing misinformation, while another 35% were moderately susceptible, with obvious consequences for public trust in physicians and personal choices detrimental to population health.17 The Trump administration’s appointment to positions of authority of individuals who seed misinformation and publicly discredit national health institutions adds to the effects of existing misinformation.18 People living in Canada are vulnerable to a cross-border bleed of not only microorganisms, but also of attitudes, health misinformation, and exposure to biased US media.
Canada does not have control over the situation south of the border, but strengthening national capacity to manage communicable diseases by optimizing data collection and interprovincial sharing of the information required to do this is possible. Political and health leaders have a crucial role in supporting the necessary efforts to address Canada’s current acute-on-chronic burden of infectious disease. CMAJ will continue advocacy and support for Canadian health systems through the curation of health knowledge and will provide content for plain-language knowledge translators in public media, helping to improve public trust and combat misinformation.
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The queerness of Pacino’s filmography is a reminder. While the media and your worst uncle claim the newness of queer and trans people, the truth is we have always been here. This cinema belongs to us as much as it does any straight film bro.
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