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A combination photograph shows an ice sculpture of a polar bear as it melts to reveal a bronze skeleton in Copenhagen, December 10, 2009. The first picture (top) was taken on December 7, the day of the beginning of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The installation is a part of an initiative to put focus on the consequences of global warming. Copenhagen is the host city for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009, which lasts from December 7 until December 18.

REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski/Christian Charisius (DENMARK ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)