Russian Geographical Society to organize polar bear expedition | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “The Russian Geographical Society (RGS) is to organize an Arctic expedition to investigate the effects of global warming on polar bears.
Scientists will also study polar bears’ seasonal migration, the RGS said.
‘One of the goals of the expedition is to study the rate of the decrease in polar bear populations,’ the RGS statement said.
Members of the month-long expedition ‘will focus on studying bears recently awakened after winter hibernation. Scientists will fix special satellite collars to monitor their movements and then analyze the data,’ the RGS statement said.”