Iceland honors glacier lost to climate change

The island country loses about 11 billion tons of ice per year

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Iceland on Sunday honored the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that about 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate.

A bronze plaque was unveiled in a ceremony to mark Okjokull - which translates to "Ok glacier"-in the west of Iceland, in the presence of local researchers and their peers from Rice University in the United States, who initiated the project.