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Sculptor Mark Coreth carved a life-size ice sculpture of a polar bear in Nytorv Square ,Copenhagen 5th December today. People are able to reach out and touch the Ice Bear and over a few days, it will melt, leaving a bronze skeleton, a pool of water . Coreth who had visited the Artic, wanted to make a sculpture to show world the desperation of the plight of the Polar bear since effects of climate change had threatened environment in general and the Polar Bear particularly.
The habitat of the bear ,the summer sea  ice cover in the Artic Ocean has both shrunk and thinned by 45% since the 1970 , losing 70% of its former volume and projected to disapperar completly in less than 30 years due to  global warming 
 The whole idea of a melting bear is a powerful environmental message symbolic of how we all have the power to affect our delicate environment. It is part of the WWf Artic Tent on Nytorv Square for the United Nation Climate Change Conference 2009  (COP15)
Visit http://www.icebearproject.org/ for more on the project.

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Coreth who visited the Artic wanted to make a sculpture to show the desperation of the plight of the Polar bear since effects of climate change had...

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