You want to Deny Climate Change? Tell this Starving Polar Bear Roaming Russian City 400 Miles from Home!

Officials in Norilsk above the Arctic Circle, alerted residents that a polar bear had been seen in the Russian city for the first time in more than 4 decades, the Associated Press reported, citing the news agency Tass. Photos showed the female, which appeared Sunday outside the city center, trudging across a busy road with muddy paws, digging through rubble and trash and lying down from apparent exhaustion on the ground. State wildlife experts are scheduled to assess the bear Wednesday and decide what will happen to it, according to the Guardian. Anatoly Nikolaichuk, who heads the local hunting department, told Tass that authorities must consider whether the bear can be transported by aircraft back to its home in the Arctic.