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Iceland Bids Farewell to First Glacier Lost to Climate Change

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   Mourners in Iceland gathered Sunday to bid a final farewell to
   700-year-old Okjokull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate
   change.

   After about 100 people, including Iceland's Prime Minister Katrin
   Jakobsdottir, Environment Minister Gudmundur Ingi Gudbrandsson, and
   former Irish President Mary Robinson, made a two-hour hike up the Ok
   volcano for the ceremony.

   Children installed a memorial plaque to the glacier, now called just
   "Ok,'' its name missing "jokull", the Icelandic word for glacier.

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