Vast sunken continent “Icelandia” may exist under the North Atlantic – if proven it could upend long-standing assumptions about region's geological history ~science Article 797 words 9 votes
Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman ~science biology.marine Article 58 words 14 votes
Silent whale watching on Iceland's first electric boat tour – a carbon-neutral tour off Húsavík makes for a greener, more peaceful experience for visitors and sea creatures ~travel Article 1236 words 10 votes
Atlantic currents seem to have started fading last century ~enviro climate change Article 1073 words 6 votes
Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters ~humanities.history Article 552 words 7 votes
The waters around Tristan da Cunha, a remote British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, will become the fourth-largest completely protected marine area in the world ~enviro Article 1090 words 11 votes
Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago ~humanities.history Article 688 words 5 votes
A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera ~science biology.marine Article 802 words 6 votes
Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits ~enviro Article 903 words, published May 1 2020 6 votes
More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America ~science biology.paleo Article 1062 words 12 votes
Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976 ~humanities.history Article 542 words 3 votes
Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading ~enviro Article 1078 words 6 votes
Iceland accused of putting mackerel stocks at risk by increasing its catch ~enviro sustainability Article 851 words 4 votes
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg nears end of her Atlantic crossing on zero-carbon yacht ~enviro Article 365 words 7 votes
The North Atlantic ocean current, which warms northern Europe, may be slowing ~enviro climate change Article 417 words 6 votes
Alarm over North Atlantic right whale's survival after recent deaths ~enviro Article 445 words 5 votes
Twenty pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland ~enviro Article 254 words 4 votes
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has accepted a ride across the Atlantic by sail boat to attend two key climate conferences ~enviro Article 313 words 7 votes
Dozens of dead beached whales have been spotted by sightseers during a helicopter flight over western Iceland ~enviro Article 190 words 9 votes
Shift in large-scale Atlantic circulation causes lower-oxygen water to invade Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence ~enviro climate change Article 843 words, published Sep 17 2018 8 votes
The plight of the North Atlantic right whale, a species with just 450 individuals left in its population, just got even worse ~enviro Link 9 votes
Scientists discover giant deep-sea coral reef off Atlantic coast ~science biology.marine Article 751 words 12 votes
Tales from the far-flung Faroes — The people who live on remote rocks in the North Atlantic ~life Article 182 words 5 votes