The Arctic Circle Assembly 2021 – Almost Business As Usual!
“Preparing for this year’s Arctic Circle Assembly has been a gratifying and at times a stressful and tense process,” says Ásdís Ólaf...
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Large-scale rare-earth mine to cease production in Greenland
According to Naaja H. Nathanielsen, Greenland’s Minister for Mineral Resources, a new legislation is being put in place by Greenland’s new...
Esports tournament in Iceland: November to see world’s largest League of Legends event
The world’s largest League of Legends esports tournament is set to be held in Reykjavík, Iceland from October 5th to November 6th 2021, confirms...
Iceland launches world’s largest plant to capture carbon from air
Iceland has launched the world’s largest plant that turns carbon dioxide captured from air into rock. In a joint effort between Iceland’s ...
Music festival in Iceland: Iceland Airwaves postponed until 2022
Popular music festival in Iceland, Iceland Airwaves has been postponed until 2022 due to the country’s social restrictions in place due to the C...
Iceland’s see largest environmental accident in the country’s history
According to Morgunblaðið, oil leaking from the wreck of British the oil tanker, El Grillo, at the bottom of the fjord in Seyðisfjörður in East Icelan...
Flatey Island sees nature reserve double in size
A document has recently been signed by Iceland’s Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson that ensures the...
North Iceland sees a rise in seal numbers
According to RÚV, the number of seals residing on the Vatnsnes and Heggstaðanes peninsulas in the North of Iceland has risen since the previous seal c...