OKJOKULL GLACIER
In Iceland, the loss of Okjokull glacier was commemorated by people with a plaque.
About:
- 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.
Source: All India Radio