The Golden Plover has arrived, indicating spring in Iceland
Iceland’s harbinger of summer, the golden plover, whose arrival to the country each spring is welcomed as a sure sign of winter’s passing – whatever t...
New challenges for Aquaculture in the North Atlantic
Colder water temperatures suppress the number of salmon lice in aqua farming but with the rising sea temperatures in the North Atlantic, monitoring of...
Earthquake of 3.3 by Mount Herdubreid this morning
From midnight last night a swarm of about 90 tremors took place in the area around Mount Herdubreid, the biggest one measuring 3.3 on the Richter scal...
Sami people of Norway get involved in controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline
The Sami people of Norway have, by way of their parliament in Norway, persuaded the country’s second largest pension fund KLP to withdraw its money fr...
Finger rafting on lake Thingvallavatn
Thingvellir National Park posted images to their Facebook wall today of strange formations in the ice covering Lake Thingvallavatn, with the following...
Whispering Iceland – Icelandic landscape featured in multiply awarded time-lapse (Video)
Greek photographer Nick Kontostavlakis won Best Time-Laps award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards in January with the stunning time-...
Shrinking glaciers are tilting the earth’s gravity point close to Iceland
The Icelandic glaciers and icecaps have lost their ice mass by 200km2 since 1995, This loss of ice mass is the equivalent to 71 times the volume of la...
Winter wonderland, Reykjavik transformed overnight
The people of Reykjavik woke up on Sunday morning to a fairytale like winter wonderland. There was a record downfall of fluffy snow, the snow was meas...