Lakes Of Melted Glaciers
Personal memory by Yannic & Jessica Riveti
2017 CE • Iceland
"In 2017 my wife and I took a trip to Iceland both for pleasure and education. We wanted to see the beautiful country and the impact of climate change on the glaciers. On one tour Jökulsárlón national park, one of the glaciers had melted so much in 20 years a new lake formed that was one mile in size. It was sad to see, and they were selling tours to kayak on the glacier. Though we enjoyed our trip, it was sad to experience so much man-made change."
Image: Molechaser, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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