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Iceland holds funeral for its first lost glacier

2019-08-19 9 Dailymotion

Officials in Iceland and climate change activists held a funeral on Sunday for the Okjokull Glacier - the country's first glacier lost to climate change.<br />The attendees said goodbye to the 700 year-old glacier with poems, a moment of silence and speeches about the pressing need to fight climate change.<br />During the ceremony,... a memorial plaque was installed where the lost glacier used to cover about 15 square kilometers.<br />Calling for immediate action... they said that, over the next 200 years, all of Iceland's glaciers are expected to disappear because of climate change.<br /><br />

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