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WASHINGTON — As if leaders of Canadian and U.S. companies were not already preoccupied with making sure the $1 trillion in annual two-way trade between the world’s two largest partners moves as smoothly as possible, now the commercial potential of the quickly melting Arctic has caught their attention. A survey of top business leaders on …

Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly under CryoSat orbiting above. The data gathered help ensure the accuracy of ESA’s ice mission. The aim of this large-scale campaign was to record sea-ice thickness and conditions of the ice exactly …

ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2012) — The U.S. National Research Council has just released a synthesis of reports from thousands of scientists in 60 countries who took part in the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08, the first in over 50 years to offer a benchmark for environmental conditions and new discoveries in the polar regions. University …

5 April 2012 – As ESA’s Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica’s ice shelves due to climate warming. One of the satellite’s first observations following its launch on 1 March 2002 was of break-up of a main section of the Larsen B ice …