June 2, 2021
REYKJAVIK (AFP) – Icelandâs glaciers have lost around 750 square kilometres, or seven per cent of their surface, since the turn of the millennium due to global warming, a study published on Monday showed.
The glaciers, which cover more than 10 per cent of the countryâs land mass, shrank in 2019 to 10,400 square kilometres, the study in the Icelandic scientific journal
Jokull said.
Since 1890, the land covered by glaciers has decreased by almost 2,200 square kilometres, or 18 per cent.
But almost a third of this decline has occurred since 2000, according to the recent calculations by glaciologists, geologists and geophysicists.
Experts have previously warned that Icelandâs glaciers are at risk of disappearing entirely by 2200.
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