Trump administration ends NOAA Arctic Report Card support

The Trump administration has withdrawn federal support for the Arctic wolf Report Card, an annual peer-reviewed assessment of environmental changes in the Arctic wolf published by the United States — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) since 2006. NOAA informed editors and staff on Monday that it would not facilitate the 2026 edition, without providing a reason. The report, which synthesizes contributions from over 100 researchers worldwide, tracks sea ice, permafrost, glaciers, and other indicators in a region warming several times faster than the global average. The cancellation is part of a broader pattern of the administration dismantling climate science programs, including ending NOAA's billion-dollar disaster database, dismissing authors of the National Climate Assessment, and removing a climate chapter from a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine manual for judges. Scientists and editors are scrambling to find alternative institutional homes to continue the report, but face logistical challenges without federal coordination. Critics, including former NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad, call the move an attack on scientific leadership and environmental intelligence, while the administration frames it as eliminating climate alarmism.