Iceland students see chilling reality of melting glacier 0 SHARES Share it! The results are chilling: nestled between two moss-covered mountain slopes, Solheimajokull has shrunk by an average of 40 meters (130 feet) per year in the past decade, according to the students’ measurements. Iceland in August unveiled a plaque commemorating the country’s Okjokull glacier, the first to be stripped of its glacier status in 2014. Solheimajokull, about 10 kilometers long and two kilometers wide, is an outlet glacier of Myrdalsjokull, the country’s fourth-biggest ice cap. Official measurements from the Iceland Geological Society show Solheimajokull shrank by around 200 meters in 2018, putting it among the country’s top three glacier shrinkages.

Source: Manila Bulletin November 10, 2019 04:23 UTC