| A tally of recent news you may have missed on changes impacting climate policy and science under the Trump administration. Another US federal website devoted to climate change has gone dark. The US Global Change Research Program’s website along with versions of the National Climate Assessment Report, have been taken offline. In April, hundreds of scientists working on the latest report were fired by the Trump administration. Their work tracked the impact of global warming on the country and was seen as key to helping prepare for worsening climate disasters. Two scientific groups, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society, announced in May that they would continue to publish their work independently. An archived version of the 2023 Fifth National Climate Assessment is currently available from an online NOAA repository Meanwhile, the National Snow and Ice Data Center is switching to sensing equipment operated by Japan's national space agency to track sea ice, after being told that a data feed from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program will end later this month. There have already been “unrecoverable gaps” in the delivery of data, NSIDC wrote on July 9. Moreover “with budget cuts from NASA for Sea Ice Today, we will no longer write mid-month analyses in the months leading up to the Arctic sea ice minimum.” Finally, after being laid off in April, roughly 15 people, representing most of the staffers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's climate and health program, were reinstated and some began returning to work in late June as part of a broader callback of hundreds of workers to the agency, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Messages notifying employees about the reversed layoffs did not provide an explanation. However, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has previously said that some staffers were mistakenly cut. Not everyone is coming back, a person familiar with the matter said. The climate and health group administered a $10 million program of grants to states and localities to build climate resilience, and worked on tools including for extreme heat. The HHS’ 2026 proposed budget calls for eliminating climate and health work at the CDC. “While I’m very happy to see the reinstatements, we’re dealing with unprecedented extreme heat right now and we could have been in a very different place than we are,” says Grace Wickerson, senior manager of climate and health at the Federation of American Scientists. “I think what we’re hoping is that they can still do the critical work that they are being authorized to do.” --Danielle Bochove and Emma Court, with assistance from Eric Roston and Brian Kahn What did we miss this week in Washington? Email dbochove1@bloomberg.net To protect your home from floods and fire, you can raise the house out of harm’s way or establish an ember-resistance zone around the dwelling. But how do you safeguard your home against extreme heat, an increasingly frequent climate-driven threat that now strikes historically temperate regions? “Even here, it's definitely a leading concern,” says Chris Magwood, who’s an Ontario, Canada-based sustainable construction expert for RMI, a nonprofit that promotes decarbonization. If you’re building a new house, you can bake heat-resilience into the structure, while existing homes can be retrofitted with temperature-reducing features. Bloomberg Green has looked at some of the most effective steps you can take to keep your home cool. Read all of them here.  Photographer: Rune Fisker More than 240 bonds globally will face deadlines this year to either meet their sustainability performance targets or in many cases face a coupon step-up, according to the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute. That’s up from the roughly 24 securities facing such deadlines last year, setting the stage for a potential rash of step-ups. Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said some asset prices are already starting to reflect growing climate risks, warning that extreme shocks could speed up that process. Breeden, who oversees financial stability for the central bank, pointed to sovereign and corporate bond prices as evidence of such assets, she said. The European Central Bank signaled that it won’t immediately hold lenders to strict demands as they prepare legally-mandated plans for how they will accompany the move to a low carbon-economy. The ECB will take a gradual, “pragmatic and targeted approach” to such transition planning when a relevant requirement takes effect next year, Executive Board Member Frank Elderson wrote in a blog on Friday. The world’s militaries are incredibly polluting, collectively accounting for some 5.5% of global emissions. Western economies are now gearing up for a big expansion of their militaries, with members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agreeing to increase defense spending to 5% of their gross domestic product by 2035. That will commit trillions of dollars more to an enormously carbon intensive industry, unless militaries can find a way to reduce their emissions. This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi asks retired Lieutenant General Richard Nugee, author of the UK Ministry of Defence’s climate change report: Can warfare go green? Listen now, and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube to get new episodes of Zero every Thursday.  Members of the Philippine Navy paddle through floodwaters in the Philippines. Photographer: Norman P. Aquino/Bloomberg | 
