diff --git a/themes/openaq/assets/js/blog.js b/themes/openaq/assets/js/blog.js
deleted file mode 100644
index c9cf52e3..00000000
--- a/themes/openaq/assets/js/blog.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-(async () => {
-
-    const placeholder = document.querySelector('.placeholder-item');
-    // placeholder is used to ensure classes are not purged by purgecss
-    placeholder.remove() 
-    const list = document.querySelector('.items');
-    const res = await fetch('https://medium.openaq.org').catch(() =>  {
-        const errorHtml = `
-        <span class="type-header-1">
-            Failed to fetch blog items. Visit OpenAQ on <a href="https://openaq.medium.com/">Medium
-        </span>`;
-        list.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', errorHtml);
-        return;
-    });
-    const feed = await res.text();
-    const data = new window.DOMParser().parseFromString(feed, "text/xml");
-    const items = data.querySelectorAll("item");
-    let year;
-    for (const item of items) {
-        const title = item.querySelector("title").innerHTML.match(/\<\!\[CDATA\[(.*)\]{2}\>/)
-        const publicationDate = new Date(item.querySelector("pubDate").innerHTML)
-        let content = item.getElementsByTagName('content:encoded');
-        content = content[0].innerHTML.replace(/\<figcaption\>.*\<\/figcaption\>/g, ' ')
-        const link = item.getElementsByTagName('link')[0].innerHTML
-        let html = '';
-        if (publicationDate.getFullYear() != year) {
-            html += `<h1 class="type-header-1 text-sky-120">${publicationDate.getFullYear()}</h1>`;
-            year = publicationDate.getFullYear();
-        }
-        html += `<a href="${link}" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><article class="blog-item">
-        <span class="blog-date type-header-3">${publicationDate.toLocaleDateString('en-us', { month:"long", day:"numeric"})}</span>
-        <div class="blog-content">
-        <div class="blog-content__title"><h5 class="type-subtitle-1 text-sky-120">${title[1]}</h5></div>
-        <div class="blog-content__body"><p class="type-body-2">${content.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, "").slice(0, 250)}...</p>
-        </div>
-        </div>
-        </article></a>`
-        list.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', html);
-    }
-})();
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/themes/openaq/layouts/about/blog/list.html b/themes/openaq/layouts/about/blog/list.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 427a00ec..00000000
--- a/themes/openaq/layouts/about/blog/list.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-{{ define "main" }}
-{{ partial "breadcrumbs" . }}
-<div class="blog-content">
-    
-    {{ partial "bubbles" }}
-
-
-    <div class="blog-content-container">
-        <div>
-            <h1 class="type-display-1 gradient-title">{{ .Title }}</h1>
-            <div class="items">
-                <a href="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="placeholder-item"><article class="blog-item">
-                    <span class="blog-date type-header-3"></span>
-                    <div class="blog-content">
-                    <div class="blog-content__title"><h5 class="type-subtitle-1 text-sky-120"></h5></div>
-                    <div class="blog-content__body"><p class="type-body-2"></p>
-                    </div>
-                    </div>
-                </article></a>
-
-
-            </div>
-        </div>
-    </div>
-</div>
-{{ partial "community-banner" . }}
-{{ partial "explore-banner" . }}
-{{ end }}
-
-
-{{ define "scripts" }}
-{{ $js := resources.Get "js/blog.js" | js.Build | resources.Minify }}
-{{ $secureJS := $js | resources.Fingerprint "sha512" }}
-<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ $secureJS.Permalink }}" integrity="{{ $secureJS.Data.Integrity }}" defer></script>
-
-{{ end }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/themes/openaq/layouts/partials/header.html b/themes/openaq/layouts/partials/header.html
index 8d4af444..b42298da 100644
--- a/themes/openaq/layouts/partials/header.html
+++ b/themes/openaq/layouts/partials/header.html
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
                 <li class="submenu__item"><a class="nav__item about-nav" href="/about/">About Us</a></li>
                 <li class="submenu__item"><a class="nav__item initiatives-nav" href="/about/initiatives/">Initiatives</a></li>
                 <li class="submenu__item"><a class="nav__item people-nav" href="/about/people/">People</a></li>
-                <li class="submenu__item"><a class="nav__item" href="/about/blog">Blog</a></li>
+                <li class="submenu__item"><a class="nav__item" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://openaq.medium.com">Blog</a></li>
                 <li class="submenu__item"><a class="nav__item use-cases-nav" href="/use-cases/">Use Cases</a></li>
                 <li class="submenu__item"><a class="nav__item reporting-nav" href="/about/legal/">Legal & Policies</a></li>
             </ul>