Climate change: Iceland holds funeral for melted glacier

20 Aug 201920 August 2019Last updated at 03:38



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Iceland has marked the melting of a glacier by holding a mock funeral to say goodbye.

The glacier called Okjokull, is the first in the country to be lost to climate change, after the warmest July ever on record.

Iceland loses about 11 billion tonnes of ice per year, and scientists have warned that there are about 400 other glaciers also at risk.

They fear all of the island's glaciers will be gone by 2200. Glaciers cover about 11% of Iceland's surface.

The funeral was organised by local researchers and staff at Rice University in the United States. But they were far from the only ones in attendance.

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