Swimmer Shivers to Call Attention to Global Warming

—By Bruce Falconer

| Tue Jul. 17, 2007 8:53 AM PDT

British swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh, a.k.a. the "Ice Bear", has become the first human to set a long-distance swimming record at the North Pole. He undertook the excruciatingly painful stunt to highlight the threat of climate change. For more, go to Blue Marble...

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