A mountaineer above Skaftafellsjokull in the Skaftafell National Park, this glacier is receding rapidly due to climate change


A mountaineer above Skaftafellsjokull in the Skaftafell National Park, this glacier like all Iceland's glaciers is receding due to climate change. Scientists predict that all Iceland's glaciers will have disappeared within 100 years.


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