The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will no longer update its widely cited list of weather and climate disasters that cause billions of dollars in damage, in yet another example of the Trump administration's hostility towards climate science.

Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.

The insurance industry used the public database to estimate future costs, while local governments turned to it for lessons on building resilient infrastructure.