Legacy Data
The Musk Mafia has deleted many of our relied-upon databases, research and public information. We do not yet know if there are backups somewhere within our government or not. However, we want to compile a comprehensive list for when we have trustworthy people to look for them.
Help us keep track
Some of the links below go to the place the databases currently reside, but there is no guarantee they are being updated. Others take you to links to articles discussing their loss. Anywhere we've discovered any sort of backup to scrubbed data is included, too.
Please contact us if you know of other government databases, research or publicly available records that should be restored/updated in the future. We're happy to accept links to databases that are still available, but you believe their future loss would have a negative impact. Include agency name, database/dataset/research name and whether or not it was searchable. If there is a link to an article discussing when it disappeared from government websites or stopped being updated with real-time information, please share that with COTG as well.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
AtlasPlus - Interactive tool for tracking HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases
CDC WONDER (Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research) - Interactive tool for making information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large
EJI - Environmental Justice Index - Ranks communities by the cumulative impacts of environmental burden through the lens of human health and health equity
National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network - Searchable database for health indicators like asthma, air quality, childhood cancers and more.
NHSS - National HIV Surveillance System - primary source of HIV data for monitoring cases of HIV infection in the United States
SVI - Social Vulnerability Index - Place-based index, database, and mapping application designed to identify and quantify communities experiencing social vulnerability
WISQARS - Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System - Tracks accidental deaths and injuries (e.g., shootings, poisonings, car crashes)
YRBSS - Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System - Monitors multiple health-related behaviors among high school students
Miscellaneous datasets that were available before January 28, 2025
Department of Education
NCES -National Center for Education Statistics - Other programs nearly wiped out after major staff cuts
NAEP - National Assessment of Educational Progress - Known as the "Nation’s Report Card"; tracks student achievement nationwide.
Longitudinal Evaluations and National Enrollment Data - Includes detailed data on K–12 and higher education enrollment
CCD - Common Core of Data - Comprehensive, annual, national database of all public elementary and secondary schools and school districts
CTE - Career and Technical Education Statistics - a derived data system—compiling information from a variety of existing federal data collections—to provide a comprehensive national picture of the current status of and recent trends in CTE
NAAL - National Assessment of Adult Literacy - Data files
SLDS - Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant Program - Numerous data sets from state-run collection systems
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center - CTEE - Current Term Enrollment Estimates - funded in part by a Department of Education grant
Department of Health and Human Services
AFCARS - Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System - Nationwide database of child welfare cases
NSDUH - National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) - Tracks trends in substance abuse and mental health disorders
NVDRS - National Violent Death Reporting System -Pulls data from WISQARS on violent deaths in 18 states
PRAMS - Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System - Survey responses from women before and after giving birth; key for tracking maternal health
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD) - searchable
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Safe Products - searchable database containing product-related injuries and deaths
Environmental Protection Agency
National Weather Service
Climate Data - Links to NWS offices and searchable databases
Weather Balloon Data - Gathers atmospheric data for weather forecasting; launches are being cut back
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) - includes snow depth, snow water equivalent, and lidar point cloud terrain models derived from airborne remote sensing campaigns conducted over the western United States from 2013-2019
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Unified (AMSR Unified) - includes passive microwave data products on snow, sea ice, soil moisture, vegetation water content, and brightness temperature
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System sensor (AMSR-E) - includes passive microwave data products related to sea ice concentration, sea ice motion, sea surface temperature, snow depth, snow water equivalent, soil moisture, wind speed, water vapor, precipitation, and other parameters.
AMSR/ADEOS-II - includes passive microwave measurements from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR). Observations cover early 2003 through October 24, 2003
Aquarius - includes global gridded soil moisture data and additional polar gridded products
Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) - includes some meteorological, oceanographic, and sea ice data products
Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX) - includes measurements of brightness temperature, albedo, visible and infrared imagery, snow characteristics, vegetation, soil moisture, and meteorology
Environmental Working Group Arctic Atlases (EWG) - include Russian and Western perspectives on the Arctic climate system, including atmospheric, oceanographic, and cryospheric data, maps, histories, and facts about climate and weather
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) - glacier database includes measurements of glacier geometry, glacier area, snowlines, supraglacial lakes and rock debris, and other glacial attributes, as well as browse images
High Mountain Asia (HMA) - includes data related to snow and ice in a region that stretches across five mountain ranges
Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) - includes data products derived from the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) instrument aboard the satellite
Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation / Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (ICESat/GLAS) - elevations of ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice, as well as height profiles of clouds and aerosols
NASA Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor Facility (LVIS) - includes airborne remote sensing data from the NASA LVIS instrument
Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) - snow, sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, ice shelves, and freeze/thaw conditions, snow, and brightness temperatures
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) - includes a suite of snow cover and sea ice data products
NASA Earthdata Cloud - includes all NSIDC DAAC data that have been migrated
NASA SnowEx - data products are diverse, ranging from snow depth measurements to radar reflectivity
Nimbus Data Rescue Project - includes satellite images from the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s
NASA's Operation IceBridge Aircraft Missions - annual changes in ice surface elevation, topography of bedrock under ice sheets, glacier and ice shelf grounding lines, snow and ice thickness, sea ice distribution, sea ice freeboard, ice temperature, and meteorological observations
SMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS - includes near-global passive microwave data from 1978 to present
Soil Moisture Active Passive Data (SMAP) - data can be used to enhance understanding of the global processes that link the water, carbon, and energy cycles, as well as to improve upon weather and climate prediction models
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) - includes snow cover, sea ice cover, and sea ice temperature data
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
HURricane SATellite Data - Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT-HURSAT) - Tropical Cyclone-centric satellite data in gridded netCDF format to create a database of small, portable, and easy to work with storm data
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project H-Series CDR (ISCCP H-Series CDR) - distribution and variation of cloud radiative properties to improve understanding and modeling of the way clouds affect climate
Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters - U.S. disaster cost assessments of the total, direct losses ($) inflicted by: tropical cyclones, inland floods, drought & heat waves, severe local storms (i.e., tornado, hail, straight-line wind damage), wildfires, crop freeze events and winter storms
nClimGrid-Daily - set of daily gridded fields and area averages of temperature and precipitation that covers the Contiguous United States (archive) - numerous links being deactivated and service will discontinue on June 30, 2025
NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES SEM-2) data - Expected to end June 16, 2025, but no new data will be added. Link to previous data no longer works.
NOAA Marine Environmental Buoy Database - map based dissemination point for archived C-MAN station and moored buoy data from the National Data Buoy Center will be decommissioned and the web site removed from service on May 30, 2025
Global Ocean Currents Database (GOCD) - integrates ocean current data from a wide variety of capture methods, resolutions, and formats into a single format (NetCDF) archive. Updates will cease on May 15, 2025
WSA-Enlil, NCEI Archival copy - will no longer be on website (or a website) after May 15, 2025; will have to request access via email
Geological History of the World's Oceanic Crust - four companion digital models of the age, age uncertainty, spreading rates and spreading asymmetries of the world's ocean basins as geographic and Mercator grids with two-minute resolution (being merged into Earthbyte on May 12, 2025)
Satellite Products and Services Review Board (SPSRB) website - already transferred to a Google site
Coastline Extractor - map viewer will no longer be available; decommissioned May 5, 2025
NCEI Coastal Ecosystem Maps - information about the physical environment, marine resources, socioeconomic activity and other aspects that can be used to identify baseline conditions, status, and trends of the ecosystem; merged into Gulf Atlas on May 5, 2025
NCEI Coastal Water Temperature Guide - product decommissioned on May 5, 2025; archived data so far still at link
The following had websites, products/data collection stopped, downloadable data all decommissioned on May 5, 2025 through May 15, 2025. Archive requests via email only.
OceanNOMADS - updates of Navy operational ocean model fields
Estuarine Bathymetry - data no longer downloadabl
Circum-Antarctic Paleobathymetry to 30° South: Present to 75my - models the paleobathymetry of the circum-Antarctic oceans back to the Late Cretaceous.
Total Sediment Thickness for the World's Oceans and Marginal Seas - compilation of sediment-thickness data from previously published isopach maps, ocean drilling results from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) and the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), and variety of seismic data
Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (IMLGS) - community designed and maintained resource that enables scientists to discover and access geological material from seabed and lakebed cores, grabs, and dredges archived at participating institutions from around the world
Thermal (geothermal) Hot Springs List for the United States
Strong Motion Earthquake Data Values of Digitized Strong-Motion Accelerograms
United States Earthquake Intensity Database - (1638–1985) is a collection of damage and felt reports for more than 23,000 U.S. earthquakes
Shoreline/Coastline Resources - high-resolution geography data set, amalgamated from two databases: World Vector Shorelines (WVS) and CIA World Data Bank II (WDBII)
Department of Homeland Security
Office of Homeland Security Statistics (most of the information in this agency appears to be monthly, quarterly or annual reports, though there are a few parts that seem to be searchable.
- Archive - no longer maintained
- Profiles on Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) - Searchable reports on distribution profiles
- Monthly Deportation and Immigration Enforcement Statistics - Data hasn’t been updated since November 2024
- Yearbook of Immigrant Statistics - Collection of tables about immigration
U.S. Forest Service
Aerial Detection Monitoring - annual aerial surveys used to create and make freely available GIS sketch maps of areas containing recent or current year conifer and hardwood mortality, defoliation, and other damage