While research seems to hunt for the newest data, historical information is invaluable to understand the long-term development of climate and human interaction. Learn more in this article.

Here, we summarize the main steps of the data rescue process so that everyone can understand best practices and practical challenges.

As I write this in 2025, IEDRO completed two decades of data rescue. In that time its commitment to mitigating the global damages from extreme weather has remained unchanged. IEDRO has worked with dozens of organizations to save millions of historical weather records from being lost forever, extending our digital vision of some locations back to the nineteenth century.