This release is available in French and Spanish. On March 12th, 2008, the International Polar Year (IPY) will launch its third 'International Polar Day', focusing on our Changing Earth; with a ...

International Polar Year expeditions attempting to navigate through the treacherous, ice-infested waters of the Arctic Ocean will be able to access the latest ESA Envisat satellite radar images of the ...

Humanity's oldest and longest-running climate experiment, the International Polar Year (IPY), will run for the fifth time in history next decade, with IPY-5 planned for 2032–2033. IPY-5 could be the ...

Paradoxically, as the International Polar Year ends we enter its most important phase. Now we must decide — and quickly — which mix of observations to sustain, based on what we have learnt. A couple ...

The Mackenzie Delta covers an area about 1/3rd the size of Switzerland (~13,000 km2) contains 45,000 lakes, and is an important representative of low-elevation river deltas around the circumpolar ...

When the polar-research community planned the International Polar Year (IPY) of 2007–08, it embraced a revolutionary goal: to establish free, open and ready access to all data. After decades of ...

International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY) was an intense, coordinated field campaign of observations, research, and analysis. It was the largest, most comprehensive campaign ever mounted to explore ...