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Iceland’s Funeral for a Glacier Lost to Climate Change

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Rick SpilmanAugust 19, 2019

The Okjökull glacier, northeast of Reykjavik, was known simply as Ok to Icelanders. (In Icelandic, jökull means glacier.) In 1890, Ok’s ice covered 16sq km (6.2 square miles) but by 2012 it measured just 0.7sq km, according to a report … Continue reading →

Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea | Tagged climate change, Glacier, OK, Okjökull
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