NOAA Withdraws Support from Arctic Report Card
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has decided to withhold support from an annual Arctic climate and environment report that it previously assisted with. This development affects the 2026 Arctic Report Card, edited by Rick Thoman. On Monday, participants were informed they would no longer receive help from the agency.
“We were informed in a phone call with NOAA yesterday that effective immediately NOAA was ending all support for the Arctic Report Card,” Thoman told The Hill.
No rationale was given at all.
Published annually since 2006, the report details the current state of the Arctic region. The withdrawal of support, initially reported by Politico, disrupts this year’s report process. Thoman emphasized ongoing efforts to release the report by December, despite the tight timeline.
“We are frantically working to find a way” to deliver this year’s report, Thoman stated. “Whether we can pull something together to have a December release, we’ll try to make it happen. Being it’s already August, that’s going to be a tough lift but we’ll try.”
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