First came orders to scrub references to how climate change disproportionately harms marginalized communities. Then demands to erase mentions of the "Gulf of Mexico."

By early summer, the climate.gov front page no longer existed -- the federal portal once billed as a "one-stop shop" for the public to understand global warming had become another casualty of President Donald Trump's war on science.

Now, a group of former employees is working to bring it back to life.

Helping coordinate the effort is Rebecca Lindsey, the site's former managing editor, who was fired in February along with hundreds of others at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"We all began to just brainstorm about how we could keep and protect climate.gov ," she told AFP. The team's new website, cl

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