Iceland will unveil monument for the first glacier lost to climate change

Scientists and local Icelanders will unveil a monument next month that memorializes the first glacier out of the country’s 400 to be lost to climate change. The Okjokull glacier no longer qualifies as a glacier, given that it is melting at a faster rate than it can expand. When this happens, glaciers become known as “dead ice”. Scientists in Iceland and Texas’s Rice University believe that this will be the fate of all glaciers in Iceland by year 2200, unless the world takes drastic action...

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