Russia emergency over polar bear ‘invasion’

Parents in a remote Russian island archipelago are afraid to send their children to school after a “mass invasion” of polar bears into residential areas, Russia’s state news agency, TASS, reported. Novaya Zemlya island, off Russia’s northeastern Arctic coast, has been swarmed by dozens of polar bears since December. The region’s largest settlement, Belushya Guba, whose population is about 2,500 people, has reported more than 50 sightings.