STORY: This is Iceland’s Askja volcano, one of the country’s most active and dangerous. :: Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland It’s been in a state of unrest since 2021. Scientists don't know exactly ...

Over the weekend, Iceland held a funeral to honor its first glacier to die. Roughly 100 activists hiked two hours to the top of the volcano where the glacier, Okjokull, once loomed large over the ...

Instead of just watching glaciers vanish, Iceland's tourism sector should start preparing now for a future where they no longer exist. Glaciers have melted at the most rapid rate on record in five of ...

'This stunning drone footage was filmed by Tad Browning during his trip to Fláajökull, the Flowing Glacier Of Iceland. Tad ...

"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,” the inscription on the plaque, written by Icelandic ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The demise of Okjökull, the first Icelandic ...

Just a few years ago, the Okjökull glacier sat proudly atop the volcanic mountain of Ok in Iceland. Now the icy mass is entirely gone and Iceland is honoring the dead glacier in a unique way. In its ...

"This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did," the plaque at the monument reads Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE.

Oddur Sigurðsson, a geologist in the Icelandic Meteorological Office, declared the largely vanished Okjökull glacier dead in 2014. Five years later, on August 18, Sigurðsson and others will hike to ...

Death certificates and commemorative plaques aren’t something you’d normally associate with a glacier. But that is exactly how Iceland recently mourned the loss of 700-year-old Okjökull, the first of ...

Editor's note: This story was rebroadcast on Nov. 10, 2021, as part of our COP26 climate conference coverage. Click here for that audio. 2019 was not a good year for the planet. Despite some ...