The Trump administration has pulled its support for an annual report on the environmental changes across the Arctic, a region that is already heating up four times faster than the global average due to the climate crisis.
On Tuesday, Kim Doster, the communications director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the federal agency was withdrawing its support for the Arctic Report Card, which has provided environmental updates on the region to scientists and the public since 2006.
Without explaining why the government stopped its support, Doster told The New York Times: “Coordination of the 2026 Arctic Report Card will not be facilitated through NOAA. … All data historically contributed by NOAA to the product will continue to be collected and will remain publicly available.”
Doster told the outlet that other NOAA programs would continue to support research in the region that contributes to “national security, weather prediction,... Read more
