The Golden Plover has Arrived – Signaling Spring
The Golden Plover, a migrating bird that signifies the arrival of spring in Iceland has landed. Spring is around the corner and Icelanders can breath ...
The Coldest Winter Since ´95
This winter seems to be the coldest measured winter since 1995 according to Meteorologist Trausti Jónsson.
The Living in Copenhagen Diary: entry number one
The first in a new series of light-hearted columns about life as a foreigner living in the Danish capital.
Property bosses jailed for icicle brain damage
The owner and manager of an Oslo apartment building have been jailed for failing to remove ice from the roof that fell on a student last winter, causi...
Manslaughter charges considered for ice roof death
Police in Helsinki are investigating whether a building manager and service company can be charged with involuntary manslaughter after a pensioner was...
Christmas comes early to Copenhagen as Santas invade the city
Those who wish it could be Christmas every day will feel at home in Denmark this month, as the annual World Santa Claus Congress opens in Copenhagen. ...
Giant ice balls in Sweden
Beach strolling bird watchers on the south-eastern Swedish island of Oland were confounded recently when they stumbled upon giant ice balls the size o...
Internal body clock blamed for winter depression
In the encroaching darkness of autumn and early winter, some Nordic people suffer increasing depressive symptoms. In Finland, November is known as ‘th...