Melting of Arctic Ice
Icelanders take out a ‘funeral’ for glacier lost to global warming
Rise in global temperatures has induced large scale melting of the ice cover in the Arctic region. After the complete loss of a glacier in Iceland, a symbolic funeral was held to protest global inaction over climate change.
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