{"id":8425,"date":"2019-02-13T07:26:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T23:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2019-02-13T07:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T23:26:55","slug":"polar-bears-invade-russian-town-state-of-emergency-declared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=8425","title":{"rendered":"Polar Bears Invade Russian Town, State of Emergency Declared"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/polar-bear-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/polar-bear-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/polar-bear-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/polar-bear-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/polar-bear-600x300.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/polar-bear.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <br>\u00a0File photo of a polar bear keeping close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. | Photo courtesy TELESUR <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, Feb 13 (NNN-TELESUR) \u2014Polar bear migration is a natural phenomenon as winter and cold creep south, but these migrations are going to places they never <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">gone<\/g> before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melting ice and a loss of habitat is forcing polar bears, once limited to the northern Arctic pole, to flee in search of food into the Russian town of Belushya Guba, forcing the town to declare a state of emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 50 hungry polar bears were spotted throughout the Russian town foraging for food among trash heaps and walking around playgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polar bears generally live on sea ice much farther north, but have recently been crossing the distance of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago as a result of diminished habitat and food sources. 30 percent of sea ice in the Arctic has diminished since 1979, a situation which will likely worsen as global temperatures rise, especially since 2018 was officially recorded as the fourth warmest year on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polar bear migration is a natural phenomenon as winter and cold creep south, but these migrations are going to places they never gone before, seemingly as a result of the desperate conditions polar bears are facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RUSIA: Alarming situation!!!! Polar Bears are forced to search for food on land, as the product of ice melting in Novaya Island Zemlya.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Globalwarming?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Globalwarming<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J8aXUU8pMH\">pic.twitter.com\/J8aXUU8pMH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Warriors4Wildlife_Int\u2122 \ud83c\udf10\u24cb\ud83d\udc3e (@W4W_Int) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/W4W_Int\/status\/1095281989593321472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, Feb 13 (NNN-TELESUR) \u2014Polar bear migration is a natural phenomenon as winter and cold creep south, but these migrations are going to places they never gone before. 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