FILE PHOTO: A man walks on the beach in Nice as storms and heavy rain lashed through southern France, October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo
BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON/BERLIN, August 1 (Reuters) -European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically made freely available to the world, and are ramping up theirown data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes, according to Reuters interviews.
The effort - which has not been previously reported - marks the most concrete response from the European Union and other European governments so far to the U.S. government's retreat from scientific research under President Donald Trump's administration.
