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    Fifty-two hungry polar bears have occupied a small Russian Arctic village called Guba, prompting officials to declare a state of emergency. The polar bears have been attacking locals, ransacking garbage dumps, and entering residential buildings in search of food. Researchers believe the lack of sea ice due to climate change has forced the bears inland earlier than usual in search of food, and the garbage in the village's dumps has kept them from migrating farther north. Locals are afraid to leave their homes or send their children to school due to the constant presence of six to ten polar bears in the village.

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    Fifty-two hungry polar bears have occupied a small Russian Arctic village called Guba, prompting officials to declare a state of emergency. The polar bears have been attacking locals, ransacking garbage dumps, and entering residential buildings in search of food. Researchers believe the lack of sea ice due to climate change has forced the bears inland earlier than usual in search of food, and the garbage in the village's dumps has kept them from migrating farther north. Locals are afraid to leave their homes or send their children to school due to the constant presence of six to ten polar bears in the village.

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    52 Polar Bears 'Invade' a Russian Town to

    Eat Garbage Instead of Starve to Death


    By Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer | February 11, 2019 04:11pm ET
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    Polar bears ransack a garbage dump for food near Churchill, Manitoba. On Feb. 9, a
    small village in Russia declared a state of emergency after being visited by at least
    52 hungry polar bears in the last two months.
    Credit: Shutterstock
    Fifty-two hungry polar bears have occupied Guba, a work settlement in a remote
    Russian Arctic archipelago. The animals reportedly attacked locals, ransacked
    garbage dumps and barged into residential buildings, according to a government
    statement translated from Russian and released this weekend.

    The massive invasion of polar bears prompted regional officials to declare a state of
    emergency on Saturday (Feb. 9).
    "People are scared, afraid to leave the house … afraid to let their children go to
    school," Zhigansha Musin, a local school administrator, said in the
    statement. "Constantly in the village are from six to 10 polar bears."

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    Belushya Guba is a settlement of about 2,000 people in Russia's remote Novaya
    Zemlya archipelago, which is best known for its spooky plankton
    blooms and apocalyptic nuclear bomb tests. It's not uncommon to see polar bears near
    the area's southern coasts, where they regularly converge in winter for seasonal seal
    hunts, according to Russia's state-run news site TASS. [The Frozen North: Stunning Images
    of Russia from Above]
    However, thinning sea ice caused by global warming likely drove the bears inland in
    search of more readily available meals, researchers from Moscow's A.N. Severtsov
    Institute of Ecology and Evolution, a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
    told TASS. The allure of edible waste in Belushya Guba's garbage bins and dump
    sites likely stopped the bears from migrating farther north, the researchers said.

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    PeterMurtagh
    ✔@PeterMurtagh

    What man is doing to the planet: polar bears on a rubbish dump in Novaya Zemlya,
    Siberia. How dispiriting.
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