Roads made from recycled plastic may be the thing to come in Iceland (VIDEO)
The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration has funded preliminary research into roads made from recycled plastic waist instead of conventional asph...
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Magnitude 4.5 earthquake west of Reykjanes peninsula
An earthquake magnitude 4.5 rocked the south west of Iceland this morning at 3.40 am. The origin of the earthquake was 119 kilometres west southwest o...
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...
New silicon factory in Helguvik spewing smoke over neighboring town
The Environment Agency of Iceland has received numerous points and complaints about both smoke and burning smell from the Silicon metal factory in Hel...
Gamer Alert – Big Jam is on and there are some Icelandic minds in the game (links to games)
Five games from Icelandic origin are competing in the BGJAM competition about the best GameBoy theme game according to a report on Visir. Direct links...
The extinct great auk to return to Atlantic shores
The great auk could be returning to the shores of the Atlantic ocean, after almost 200 years of absence. A band of geneticists have hatched a plan to ...
Fake Icelanders on Facebook
Icelanders are advised to review their privacy and security settings on Facebook now more than ever- Hackers are on the prowl.
Icelandic Developers release ReRunners worldwide on the App Store and Google Play
Klang Games has announced the release of ReRunners, a competitive racing platformer for mobile devices. In a world of “idle” mobile games that ask pl...