World-leading climate centre takes Trump administration to court Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled. By Alexandra Witze

World-leading climate centre takes Trump administration to court Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled. By Alexandra Witze https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01501-z?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=677edada85-nature-briefing-daily-20260511&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50432164 Climate ‘mothership’ fights back in court One of the leading climate-science institutions in the world — the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado — is fighting for its life in a US courtroom. The universities that manage the research centre are suing the administration of President Donald Trump, which has said that it will dismantle NCAR because it is a source of “climate alarmism”. At the heart of the case is whether the US National Science Foundation is moving too quickly and without authority to hand off pieces of NCAR — including a supercomputing centre in Wyoming — to public and private institutions. Whatever the ruling, the broader battle over the future of NCAR — including its aeroplane fleet, space-weather studies and climate-modelling teams — will probably continue to play out.