“This glacier, along with the other glaciers in Iceland, is melting. This glacier has become one of those glaciers that we have really seen [melting] with our eyes in the past years,” said Esther. I got to know the glacier really well. As the world’s atmosphere heats up due to excessive greenhouse gas emissions, glaciers are melting and losing mass more and more each year. Loss of glaciers threatens water supplies to populations who live downstream, as well as increasing the risks of extreme weather events like flooding.