STORY: This is Iceland’s Askja volcano, one of the country’s most active and dangerous. :: Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland It’s been in a state of unrest since 2021. Scientists don't know exactly ...
Death certificates and commemorative plaques aren’t something you’d normally associate with a glacier. But that is exactly how Iceland recently mourned the loss of 700-year-old Okjökull, the first of ...
"Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path,” the inscription on the plaque, written by Icelandic ...
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like ...
Editor's note: This story was rebroadcast on Nov. 10, 2021, as part of our COP26 climate conference coverage. Click here for that audio. 2019 was not a good year for the planet. Despite some ...
SÓLHEIMAJÖKULL GLACIER, Iceland — To first-time visitors, it is a picturesque sight: a large lagoon dotted with kayakers and framed by lush green hills and an imposing, snake-like glacier. But to ...
OKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland -- Leading politicians and scientists in Iceland say there's an urgent need to fight climate change. They made those pleas during what they called a funeral for a glacier ...
OKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland -- Leading politicians and scientists in Iceland say there's an urgent need to fight climate change. They made those pleas during what they called a funeral for a glacier ...
OKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland -- Leading politicians and scientists in Iceland say there's an urgent need to fight climate change. They made those pleas during what they called a funeral for a glacier ...