What's happening to Iceland's glaciers?
Iceland hosts around 570 glaciers, covering about 1.5% of Earth’s global glacier area. Glaciers in Iceland play an important role for tourism and hydropower generation. Since the year 2000, Iceland’s glaciers have been continuously losing mass. This retreat has taken place along with rapid increases in Arctic air temperatures, which is warming more than twice as fast as the global average.
Additional Information About the Data on Display
The information on this page is based on analysis of CryoSat-2 swath altimetry data from the CryoTEMPO-EOLIS dataset. For more details on how the displayed data is generated, please refer to the Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document.