Iceland’s Personal Names Committee approves new first names
The Personal Names Committee of Iceland has approved a variety of new first names that can be used in guidance with Icelandic culture, including Baggi...
Iceland’s F-Roads: What You Need to Know Before Driving into the Highlands
As summer approaches, so does the season for highland adventures in Iceland. If you dream of exploring remote lava fields, glacial rivers, and vast va...
Volcano in Iceland: Grindavík evacuates as magma eruption begins
At roughly 6:30 am local time this morning, a magma eruption began at the Sundhnúk crater range on the Reykjanes Peninsula in the southwest of Iceland...
Iceland joins glacier research initiative to study ice loss
Iceland has joined ICELINK, a glacier research initiative that aims to examine the impact of climate change on glaciers and their ice loss. ICELINK ha...
18.2% of Iceland’s population comprised of migrants finds Statistics Iceland
According to Statistics Iceland, the number of residents in Iceland who have migrated from other countries is about 18.2% of the population as of 2024...
Over half of Iceland’s population reads 30 minutes per day
A new study conducted by the Icelandic Literature Center shows that 55% of Icelanders read at least 30 minutes daily, with an average of 2.6 book...
Super Valdi, the Man Behind Iceland’s Unreachable Road
At Icenews, we have been monitoring the progress of the “100 Stories from Iceland” Project. One of the stories that caught our attention i...
Presidential election in Iceland: Halla Tómasdóttir named as president
Yesterday marked the official final numbers for the presidential election in Iceland, with Halla Tómasdóttir becoming the country’s seventh pres...