The largest volcanic island in the world Iceland symbolises the visible change in our environment: in August 2019, the Okjökull glacier was symbolically buried here, as it was the first Icelandic glacier to melt completely and is an official victim of climate change. The glacier, which was over 700 years old and used to be over 50 meters thick, was bid farewell with a memorial plaque and a funeral service. But the trees on Iceland have also disappeared. Once around a third of the island was forested, today it is less than one per cent. Large parts of the landscape have become barren due to deforestation, erosion and climate change. However, there are initiatives that want to change this.