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.

Source : All India Radio

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