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VANISHED GLACIER

 VANISHED GLACIER

Marked with memorial

Iceland has honored the passing of Langjökull, its first glacier lost to climate change. Scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate.

Langjökull was an amazing glacier. A jeep or snowmobiling tour was the best way to experience the sheer size and beauty of glacier.



A bronze plaque was mounted on a bare rock on the former glacier in a ceremony. Iceland's Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir who attended the sad event said, "I hope this ceremony will be an inspiration not only to us here in Iceland but also for the rest of the world, because what we are seeing here is just one face of the climate crisis."

Cymene Howe who created a 2018 documentary called 'Not Ok' on this subject said, "These bodies of ice are the largest freshwater reserves on the planet and frozen within them are histories of the atmosphere."

"With this memorial they want to underscore that it is up to us, the living, to collectively respond to the rapid loss of  glacier and the ongoing impacts of climate change," added Howe.

Glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland have been melting at an alarming rate, scientists have said.

Warm ocean water has been seeping beneath the ice and starting the melting process, bottom-up. Ice covering the Arctic Ocean has been melting at an alarming rate.

A bronze plaque was mounted on the rock on the former glacier in a ceremony.



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  1. Unknown3 March 2021 at 04:42

    Wow! Great news. Keep doing this work.

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  2. Unknown3 March 2021 at 05:04

    Super.but sad it very sad to here we must protect environment

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  3. General knowledge3 March 2021 at 17:08

    we humans are destroying the world as much as possible

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