Iceland holds funeral for first glacier lost to climate change

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Nation commemorates the once huge Okjokull glacier with plaque that warns action is needed to prevent climate change

Iceland has marked its first-ever loss of a glacier to climate change as scientists warn that hundreds of other ice sheets on the subarctic island risk the same fate.

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