One Icelandic glacier is receding annually by the length of an Olympic swimming pool. This is what scientists are doing about it.
SÓLHEIMAJÖKULL GLACIER, Iceland — To first-time visitors, it is a picturesque sight: a large lagoon dotted with kayakers and framed by lush green hills and an imposing, snake-like glacier.
Richard Engel and Sigurros Arnardottir, a masters student in glacial geology at the University of Iceland, atop the Solheimajokull Glacier in Iceland.“I have kind of a love-hate relationship with the lagoon because it just screams climate change,” Arnardóttir adds. Mitigating climate change is “one of the top priorities of the government,” Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Iceland’s environment minister, told NBC News. “We need to scale up our efforts and step up our game when it comes to solving the climate crisis.”Perhaps the most promising example of how Icelanders are working to cut their carbon footprint lies about 70 miles northwest of Sólheimajökull.
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