Ziaullah Khan
A 700-year-old glacier in the European country of Iceland has completely melted. A large number of locals gathered on the occasion and expressed regret that the gathering had turned into the last glacier ceremony.
This glacier called ‘Okjokull’ was 700 years old and for a long time the locals were providing clean drinking water and for the past few years, its volume has been declining, However, a few days ago, the glacier was completely melted down and hundreds of people flocked to say goodbye.
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The local administration also issued its regular death certificate on the removal of the glacier.
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Glaciers around the world, including Iceland, are melting fast, and if their melting speed remain same, all of Iceland’s glaciers would be gone in the next 200 years. An another ice area in Greenland has melted 2,700 billion metric tons of snow from 2003 to 2013. Experts have termed the region’s snow as very unpredictable and say its melting speed will increase further.
Since 2000, Antarctica’s snow has been melting very fast and in that period, about 8,000 different small lakes have been formed. On the other hand, the icy area of the North Pole has also decreased by 6,200,000 square miles.
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Sad to see that happen, we have not much of the Franz Josef Glacier and that is melting fast I have yet to visit and not been.
Iceland would look strange without ice.
Yeah very true , I agree with you
this is entirely preventable- if we stop using fossil fuels
Yeah , agree with you Alex …..
if only the world rulers agreed with us
It’s sad but still real … I don’t know what awaits us all
Yeah , It is alarming situation
I totally agree with you
Too bad some still deny this is real.
This is real and people who deny knows nothing
It really makes me sad to think that the earth is deteriorating.
Indeed this is the real hour of sorrow for human
And that explains perhaps the floods one experiences the world over
Partially agreed with you
Kind of scary to think about our future sometimes.
Yeah , world is underway to its end