Researchers Memorialize First Major Icelandic Glacier Lost To Climate Change
Researchers are installing a memorial plaque to recognize the "dead" glacier as a message to future generations.
Scientists, academics and world leaders will soon gather in Iceland to memorialize the first major Icelandic glacier to disappear due to climate change.
Okjökull — “Ok glacier” in Icelandic — was deemed “dead” in 2014 because it had lost so much ice.
“It didn’t have enough mass of snow and ice in order to be able to crawl along the ground which is required of a glacier to be able to move under its own weight,” says Cymene Howe, an associate professor of anthropology at Rice University.
Now, scientists are installing a memorial
