When Rebecca Lindsey received a layoff notice from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in February, it felt like an attack on the federal government’s online science portal that she had helped run for a decade and a half. The site, called Climate.gov, was a vast repository of research about climate change. “It was the first blow in what was going to happen to Climate.gov,” Lindsey, a former managing editor and program manager for the website, told the Thomson Reuters