Tag: Okjokull ice sheet

• Monday, August 19th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Iceland unveils a plaque to the loss of the first of the country's glaciers

  

  Iceland unveiled a plaque to its Okjokull ice sheet on Sunday, the first of the country's hundreds of glaciers to melt away due to climate change. Scientists see the shrinking of glaciers as one of many warning signs that the earth's climate is lurching towards dangerous tipping points.