As world leaders meet in Glasgow, Scotland, to try to ramp up efforts to curb climate change, the spectre of polar bears looms over them. The Arctic has been warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Scientists and advocates say the threatened animals are "the canary in the cryosphere."

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