Accelerating Icelandic Glacier Melt in Past 25 Years

Frontiers in Earth Science, November 26

Over the past 130 years, glaciers in Iceland have lost about 20 percent of their total ice (540 gigatons of ice mass). Nearly half of this glacier loss has occurred in the past 25 years. Most projections (in other studies of Iceland’s glaciers) indicate accelerating loss as temperatures rise, and near-total loss of Iceland’s glaciers at 2°C of global warming or above.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.523646/full

Compiled by Amy Imdieke.