The ice we’ve lost to climate change
One of the most poignant climate moments of 2019 was a funeral for ice: an August ceremony in Iceland for the country’s Okjökull glacier. As can be seen in these NASA satellite images, the glacier declined dramatically between 1986 and 2019.
The Arctic in particular is warming twice as fast as the global average and experienced many historic heat waves. The warming, in turn, is causing an unprecedented amount of melt in the world’s ice. We are currently in the midst of the fastest decline of Arctic sea ice in 1,500 years.
In the past decade, the rate of ice melt in Antarctica tripled compared to 2007.
We’ll likely lose even more from the coldest parts of the world in the coming decade. But the actions we all take will shape just how much is lost.
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