CanWest News Service: The disappearance of Arctic sea ice– reported in September– was Environment Canada’s No. 1 weather story of 2007. In fact, the United Nations declared the record loss of ice as one of the world’s biggest events. The thinning and shrinking of the ice, largely a result of a series of consecutive warm years, has had a profound impact on the North– people, plants and wildlife alike. Scientists believe that Greenland, with its melting ice caps and disappearing glaciers, …