The demise of Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, will be memorialized with a plaque by researchers from Rice University in Houston
Yes, we are memorializing glaciers now, and no, this is not a joke.The monument to Okjökull glacier in Borgarfjörður, Iceland, will be installed on August 18 in a public ceremony.Tourists scramble to avoid a wave caused by a glacier collapse"This will be the first monument to a glacier lost to climate change anywhere in the world," Rice University anthropologist Cymene Howe said.
Greenland's most critical glacier is suddenly gaining ice, but that might not be a good thingBoyer told CNN that glaciologists predict that"all of Iceland's glacial mass will disappear in the next 200 years, with a massive impact to cultural heritage, tourism, hydroelectric power and fisheries."It's the latest warning that rising temperatures present a serious threat to glaciers and the millions of people worldwide who live near them.
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