RIP, Okjökull.
Published 10:52 AM EDT Jul 24, 2019The first of Iceland's glaciers to disappear due to climate change will be memorialized with a plaque, which will be unveiled next month.
"These bodies of ice are the largest freshwater reserves on the planet and frozen within them are histories of the atmosphere," Howe said.Rice University Rice University is involved because Howe and other anthropologists from the university produced the documentary"Not Ok" about the glacier in 2018.
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