People Held Glacier Funerals in Iceland to Mourn Environmental Loss — a Ritual That Could Help Us Face Ecological Grief

One cloudy August morning in 2019, one hundred or so people hiked up an Icelandic mountainside to say their last goodbye to a glacier. Okjökull, or Ok, had once sprawled across the summit, but was now reduced to a lifeless patch of ice — glaciologists had declared it “dead” several years earlier. Iceland’s prime minister…

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