Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted or decommissioned on the orders of US President Donald Trump's administration, Nature has learnt. An official with Pangaea, a massive environmental data repository run by the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, says that the organization is formally working with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to back up at-risk databases. Pangaea's decision to join the cause followed distress calls from members of the science community and from staff members inside NOAA ' an agency that monitors Earth's atmosphere and climate and provides weather-forecasting services. The Trump administration has promised to slash government spending and has proposed gutting NOAA's climate research programmes, which administration officials have said promote 'exaggerated and implausible climate threats'....
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