How to Mourn a Glacier | The New Yorker - 0 views
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Okjökull—meaning “Ok’s glacier”—which spanned sixteen square kilometres at its largest, at the end of the nineteenth century. By 1978, it had shrunk to three square kilometres
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In 2014, Iceland’s leading glaciologist, Oddur Sigurðsson, hiked to Ok’s summit to discover only a small patch of slushy gray ice in the shadow of the volcano’s crater.
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Okjökull could no longer be classified as a glacier, Sigurðsson announced to the scientific community.
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