Icelandic memorial warns future: ‘Only you know if we saved glaciers’ / The Guardian

Plaque marking Okjökull, the first glacier lost to climate crisis, to be unveiled in August.

The first of Iceland’s 400 glaciers to be lost to the climate crisis will be remembered with a memorial plaque – and a sombre warning for the future – to be unveiled by scientists and local people next month.

The former Okjökull glacier, which a century ago covered 15 sq km (5.8 sq miles) of mountainside in western Iceland and measured 50 metres thick, has shrunk to barely 1 sq km of ice less than 15 metres deep and lost its status as a glacier.

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