In Icelandic and English, it reads: “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.

With 11 percent of the landmass covered in ice, rapidly ebbing glaciers are threatening to reshape Iceland’s landscape, and Haraldsson, 74, is part of a contingent of volunteer glacier monitors ...

“A letter to the future,” the plaque reads. “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.

Icelandic geologist Oddur Sigurðsson, who had declared the ice mass "extinct," brought a death certificate. Children set down a plaque to the glacier, called "Ok," to signify its loss of ice.

Scientists believe that the 400-plus glaciers in Iceland will all be gone by 2200. "Currently, Iceland loses 11 billion tons of ice mass every year.

If anyone knows traveling in Europe, it's Rick Steves, and he has some dire warnings to offer for those making their first ...

Researchers and members of the Icelandic community will commemorate the first lost glacier with a plaque and memorial service at the site where it once stood. The Okjökull Glacier in ...

"Ok was the first named Icelandic glacier to melt because of how humans have transformed the planet’s atmosphere," said Dominic Boyer, another Rice University anthropologist. "Its fate will be ...

In many ways, Iceland is ground zero for climate change. In July, a funeral was held for one of its 300 glaciers — all of which are melting.

The demise of Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, will be memorialized with a plaque by researchers from Rice University in Houston.The monument to Okjökull glacier in ...