Last year, headstones carved from ice by Icelandic sculptor Ottó Magnússon were placed in a windswept field by the sea to create, before they melted away, a Glacier Graveyard. The headstones bore
Last year, headstones carved from ice by Icelandic sculptor Ottó Magnússon were placed in a windswept field by the sea to create, before they melted away, a Glacier Graveyard. The headstones bore the names of glaciers from around the world that are lost or waning due to global warming.
Among them were:
• Pico Humboldt, the last of Venezuela's glaciers, now gone
• Anderson Glacier, in Washington U.S., disappeared in 2011
• Kilimanjaro, the final remaining glacier in Africa
• Aujuittuq in Canada: its Inuit name means "A place that never thaws" although it is now thawing.
Projections indicate that one-third of glacier sites could disappear by 2050, so on March 21, 2025, global leaders, scientists and policymakers will gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and Paris to mark the first-ever World Day for Glaciers.
To coincide with this, the World Meteorological Organization released its State of the Global Climate report. It comes before World Glaciers Day on March 21, World Water Day on March 22 and World Meteorological Day on March 23. It states:
• The 18 lowest Arctic sea-ice extents on record were all in the past 18 years.
• The three lowest
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