Norwegian artist unveils Antarctica 'ice bridge' at UN

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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Norwegian artist Vebjorn Sand unveiled an ice bridge made of frozen Antarctic water at a ceremony on the UN headquarters grounds late Monday to highlight the threat of melting glaciers resulting from global warming.

"Welcome to Antarctica," the Norwegian painter and public art creator told a small crowd gathered in crisp weather on a plaza on the UN grounds as he took the wraps off his exhibit entitled "Antarctica: On Thin Ice."

"I am trying to say that Antarctica must never melt because this is a piece of Antarctica," he told AFP, two days after 190 nations sealed a deal, at a climate change summit in Indonesia, fixing a 2009 deadline for a new treaty to tackle global warming.

The ice sculpture, based on a Leonardo da Vinci design and...