Scientists Launch Community Effort to Replace Scrapped US Climate Report

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Researchers have begun a community-led initiative to fill the gap left by the termination of an official US climate report. The effort involves building a collection of scientific papers to continue climate research documentation. The first paper added to this collection serves as a roadmap outlining future research directions. The initiative appears to be a response by the scientific community to maintain climate knowledge continuity outside government channels.

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