00:00The U.S. government on Monday said it won't publish a climate change report on the NASA website despite a promise to do so in what is the latest step from the Trump administration in removing information about climate change on federal sites.
00:15Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative peer-reviewed National Climate Assessment went dark. Such sites tell state and local government and the public what to expect in their backyards from a warming world and how best to adapt to it.
00:35At the time, the White House said NASA would house the reports to comply with a 1990 law that requires the reports, which the space agency said it planned to do. But on Monday, NASA announced that it aborted those plans.
00:50The most recent report issued in 2023 found that climate change is affecting people's security, health and livelihoods in every corner of the country in different ways, with minority communities, particularly Native Americans, often disproportionately at risk.
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