Legally mandated national climate assessments disappeared this week from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world.

The Trump administration has shut down a federal website that hosted congressionally mandated national climate assessments, which were the government's preeminent reports on climate change impacts, risks and responses.

Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them