Government Pulls Funding for the Arctic Report Card

The Trump administration has pulled federal funding from NOAA's Arctic Report Card, an annual, peer-reviewed assessment that tracks a region warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Per Eos, the report's authors learned of the funding cut in a Monday afternoon meeting. Climate scientist Zack Labe, who has authored the report since 2020, warned that losing it would create a significant gap in monitoring one of the planet's fastest-warming areas, with global implications. The decision is part of a broader series of federal science funding cuts under the Trump administration.

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