On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Cool Kis coolk...@msn.com [nidokidos] < nidokidos-nore...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> > > > > > * Deadly Two-Week Polar Bear Siege On Remote Russian Base Comes To > Dramatic Conclusion By John Kuroski * > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > * After two tense weeks, rescuers have finally saved Russian scientists > from the polar bears that had surrounded their remote Arctic base. Five > scientists working at the weather station on Troynoy island, in the Kara > Sea north of Russia, came under siege from ten adult bears in late August > and quickly began to fear for their safety, the TASS Russian news agency > reports. On August 31, a bear killed one of the station’s two dogs and > refused to leave the area for days thereafter. Another bear took to posting > directly underneath one of the station’s windows, where it likewise > remained for days. “It’s dangerous to go out as we have run short of any > means to scare off the predators,” station chief Vadim Plotnikov told TASS, > adding that all outside work had to be suspended. And, for a time, the team > received no help in terms of scaring the bears away. When Plotnikov first > contacted his department on the mainland, they advised him to “act > independently” and that the next supply ship wasn’t due in for another > month. But then, after more than two weeks, salvation came in the form of a > nearby ship that stopped at Troynoy and provided both dogs and flares to > successfully scare the bears away, TASS reported on Monday. Along with > electronic sirens and firearms, flares and dogs are regularly given to > Arctic researchers in case of run-ins with bears. The Troynoy team simply > lacked the equipment to deal with such an atypical siege. In the words of > Yelena Novikova, spokeswoman for the Sevgidromet network that owns the > weather station, a situation like this one is “not standard.” When > explaining why this situation transpired at all, Novikova pointed to one > event: climate change. “The bears usually go to other islands, but this > year they didn’t. The ice receded quickly and the bears didn’t have time to > swim to other islands,” Novikova said. “There’s no food on [Troynoy] > island, so they came up to the station.” By this time of year, the waters > should have frozen and thus the bears would have expanded their icy > territory. The waters, however, simply aren’t freezing like they used to. > And polar bears, of course, are feeling the effects. The National Wildlife > Federation estimates that two-thirds of the polar bear population will be > gone by 2050 and that, without swift action, extinction will be next. 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