Save the Polar Bears from the warm weather! Later, when it warms up a bit.
Two U.S. explorers plan to start a four-month summer expedition to the North Pole next month to gather information on the habitat of an animal they believe could be the first victim of global warming -- the polar bear.
Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen plan to travel 1,100 miles by foot and canoe over the Arctic Ocean to test the depth and density of the ice in summer in a mission sponsored by Greenpeace, the environmental group said on Thursday.
According to some scientific predictions, the Arctic Ocean could become ice-free in the summer within a hundred years.
Polar bears cannot survive without sea ice and the U.S. government said in February it would consider whether the bears should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Unusually heavy snow and ice last year forced Dupre and Larsen to call off a similar mission...