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Iceland Holds Funeral for First Glacier Lost to Climate Change

Nation commemorates the once huge Okjokull glacier with plaque that warns action is needed to prevent climate change

The Guardian UK, 19 Aug 2019.

Iceland has marked its first-ever loss of a glacier to climate change as scientists warn that hundreds of other ice sheets on the subarctic island risk the same fate.

As the world recently marked the warmest July ever on record, a bronze plaque was mounted on a bare rock in a ceremony on the barren terrain once covered by the Okjokull glacier in western Iceland.

The glaciers of Iceland seemed eternal. Now a country mourns their loss > Andri Snær Magnason

The ice melted away after being frozen for 700 years. A bronze plaque unveiled at the site warns that over the next 200 years, all of Iceland's glaciers will meet the same fate.

Around 100 people walked up the mountain for the ceremony, including Iceland’s prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, former UN human rights commissioner, Mary Robinson, and local reseachers and colleagues from the United States from who pioneered the commemoration project.