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Detailed explanation-1: -“Ok (Okjokull) is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path,” said the inscription on the plaque written by Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason. “We know what is happening and what needs to be done.

Detailed explanation-2: -The correct answer is Iceland. It became the first Icelandic glacier lost due to climate change.

Detailed explanation-3: -The demise of Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, will be memorialized with a plaque by researchers from Rice University in Houston.

Detailed explanation-4: -Okjökull was the first major Icelandic glacier to disappear but others will soon follow; the magnificent glacier, Snæfellsjökull, muse of the Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, and visible on a clear day from Reykjavík, is predicted to have 20 years left at most.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Okjökull had been declining for years before it disappeared. At its largest, near the end of the 19th century, it was sixteen square kilometres. By 1978, it was three square kilometres, and in 2014, Iceland’s leading geologist Oddue Sigurðsson visited, found only slush, and declared that the glacier was dead.