These two photos taken in 1986 and 2019 show the loss of ice at the glacier
Iceland has been commemorating the country's first glacier lost to climate change, with a memorial plaque warning of the effects of global warming being installed at the site.
Icelandic officials, activists and others took part in a ceremony on Sunday that included poetry, silence and political speeches on the urgency of taking action to curb rising global temperatures.
The disappearance of Okjokull, a glacier in the west of the sub-Arctic island, is being seen as directly due to the warming of the climate caused by human activity.
Continue reading: Iceland holds ceremony for first glacier lost to climate change | News | DW | 18.08.2019
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