OKJOKULL GLACIER

Aug. 19, 2019

In Iceland, the loss of Okjokull glacier was commemorated by people with a plaque.

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  • The Okjokull glacier was officially declared dead in 2014 at the age of 700 by the Icelandic Meteorological Office when it was no longer thick enough to move.

  • What once was glacier has been reduced to a small patch of ice atop a volcano.

  • Okjokull is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as glacier.

  • The plaque is also labelled "415 ppm CO2", referring to the record level of carbon dioxide measured in the atmosphere last May.

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