Iceland pupils see chilling reality of melting glacier
Tourists taking photographs with big ice-floes at Diamond Beach located by Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon on the edge of Vatnajokull National Park in southeast Iceland recently. Glaciers cover about 11% of Iceland's surface. – EPA pic, November 10, 2019.
ICELANDIC seventh-grader Lilja Einarsdottir is on an unusual field trip with her class: they’re measuring the Solheimajokull glacier to see how much it has shrunk in the past year, witnessing climate change first-hand. “It is very beautiful but at the same time it is very sad to see how much it has melted,” says Lilja, bundled up against the autumn chill in a blue pompom hat.
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