Iceland organizes a funeral for … a glacier

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Iceland held an event that’s the first of its kind yesterday. Poet Andri Magneson wrote the words that were engraved on the memorial for the glacier that’s the first in Iceland to lose its status as a glacier. Host Carol Hills speaks with Magneson. 

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