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Report finds warmest temperatures, loss of snow cover as US joins arctic countries to push ahead with oil drilling.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A new report has found unprecedented temperature rises and significant loss of snow and ice in the Arctic, a region now described as \u201cwarming far faster than the rest of the planet\u201d.<\/p>\n The annual Arctic Report Card published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Tuesday found that surface air temperatures across the Arctic between October 2024 and September 2025 were \u201cthe warmest recorded since 1900\u201d.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Last year\u2019s unusually high temperatures capped off a decade of record highs in the region surrounding the North Pole, according to the report, which was a collaboration of 112 authors from 13 different countries.<\/p>\n In the 47 years that satellite images have been used for recording and measurement, winter sea ice reached its lowest levels in March 2025, while snow cover over the Arctic in June was half what it was six decades ago, the report found.<\/p>\n The report card was the 20th to be released annually by NOAA, a US government agency that appears to have undergone changes to its scope of work under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n The report\u2019s authors presented their findings at a news conference where a reporter asked about statements made by NOAA officials under previous US administrations, linking environmental changes in the Arctic to fossil fuel pollution.<\/p>\n Steven Thur, NOAA\u2019s acting chief scientist, responded to the question without referring to fossil fuels or climate change directly.<\/p>\n \u201cWe recognise that the planet is changing dramatically. Our role within NOAA is to try to predict what\u2019s going to occur in the future by documenting what\u2019s occurring today,\u201d Thur said.<\/p>\n According to the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, multiple federal agencies have scrubbed references to climate change from their websites under the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n This has included \u201cthe entire page on climate change on the White House website\u201d and \u201ccontent that provided assessments on an area\u2019s vulnerability to wildfire\u201d on the US Department of Agriculture\u2019s website.<\/p>\n Federal researchers have also \u201cseen their studies disappear from agency websites\u201d, the Sabin school said.<\/p>\n Despite the cascading environmental harms caused by climate change, several countries, including the US, Russia and Norway, are reportedly planning to expand mining operations in the Arctic region.<\/p>\n In October, Kremlin investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev said on X that a 112km (70-mile) \u201crailroad and cargo link\u201d between Siberia and Alaska would \u201cunlock joint resource exploration\u201d between the two countries.<\/p>\n \u201cCertainly, Russia is eyeing the opportunity of joint Russia-China-US projects, including in the Arctic region, specifically in the energy sector,\u201d Dmitriev said in remarks reported by Russia\u2019s TASS state news agency a month earlier.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has also announced new offshore oil drilling plans that include 21 new five-year offshore oil and gas leases from the Gulf of Alaska to the High Arctic, according to the Alaska Beacon newspaper, fulfilling Trump\u2019s election promise to \u201cdrill, baby drill\u201d.<\/p>\n The plans from the US and Russia contrast with the results of a 2024 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford University poll, which suggested that 80 percent of people surveyed worldwide want to do more to address climate change.<\/p>\n Countries and companies that are pushing ahead with more fossil fuel projects despite the risks are also facing increasing legal challenges, including from a recent ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which found polluters have a responsibility to clean up their acts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Report finds warmest temperatures, loss of snow cover as US joins arctic countries to push ahead with oil drilling. A new report has found unprecedented temperature rises and significant loss of snow and ice in the Arctic, a region now described as \u201cwarming far faster than the rest of the planet\u201d. 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