A big new facility built to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere opened up in Iceland. It's a stepping stone to bigger plans in the US. ~enviro climate change Article 661 words 28 votes
Bid to secure spot for glacier in Icelandic presidential race heats up – decade-old idea for Snæfellsjökull has snowballed into a full-blown campaign ~enviro Article 761 words 5 votes
Iceland's digital election website made it so easy to run for president that scores of people ended up throwing their hats in the ring by accident ~misc politics Article 77 words 15 votes
Iceland's Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson will be the country's next prime minister, replacing Katrín Jakobsdóttir who resigned from the post last week ~news iceland politics Article 163 words 4 votes
Icelandic PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir announced her resignation – said that she will run for president, a ceremonial post that is mostly above the daily political fray ~news iceland politics Article 280 words 11 votes
Sulfur dioxide pumped out by the erupting volcano on Iceland is currently traveling across northern Europe – scientists concerned it could impact the ozone layer ~enviro Link 9 votes
A state of emergency has been declared in southern Iceland after another volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula – the fourth since December ~enviro Article 25 votes
Documentary ‘The Home Game’, about an Icelandic village's football team, has taken the top honour at the Glasgow Film Festival ~movies documentaries Article 315 words 6 votes
On International Women's Day, Northern European countries stand out for women who are looking to develop their careers – Iceland secured the top spot ~life.women Article 606 words 3 votes
Palestinian pop singer Bashar Murad is hoping to represent Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contest and bring “a Palestinian voice to the main stage” ~music pop Article 464 words 12 votes
Iceland plans to buy out home owners in volcano-struck town of Grindavík – total cost of the buyout could be as much as $440 million ~enviro Article 77 words 20 votes
State of emergency has been declared in Iceland after lava from a volcanic eruption damaged key hot water pipes ~enviro Article 460 words 22 votes
How Iceland takes better care of its foreign criminal offenders than the rest of Europe ~life family Article 1004 words 9 votes
Grindavík in Iceland now lies empty. Its people have fled and are beginning to face up to the realisation they may never be able live there again. ~enviro Article 1055 words 25 votes
Why are antidepressants so popular in Iceland? | Mindset ~health.mental Video 18:31, published Jan 14 2024 6 votes
Iceland battles a lava flow – countries have built barriers and tried explosives in the past, but it's hard to stop molten rock ~enviro Article 662 words 9 votes
Iceland residents of Grindavík, first evacuated in November, have been told to evacuate again after volcanic fissures opened ~enviro Article 17 votes
Icelandic scientists are planning to drill two boreholes to a reservoir of liquid rock – world's first tunnel to a magma chamber ~enviro energy.renewable Article 282 words 16 votes
Iceland keeps feeding its tourist boom. Will it push locals out? – about six times as many visitors as residents came to the tiny island last year ~life housing Article 77 words 8 votes
Iceland fisheries minister rebuked over 2023 whaling ban – Parliamentary Ombudsman says whaling ban lacked legal footing ~enviro Article 77 words 10 votes
After 800 years, volcanic activity has returned to Reykjanes – Andri Snær Magnason reflects on the Icelandic relationship with volcanoes ~enviro Article 1685 words 12 votes
How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours ~enviro Article 643 words 9 votes
Christmas beer made from green peas and marinated red cabbage has become a festive hit in Iceland ~food drinks.seasonal Article 384 words 9 votes
Vast, desolate and magically odd – what is it about Iceland that makes musicians so desperate to record there? ~music Article 1432 words 3 votes
Eavor Technologies | The first scalable form of clean baseload power ~enviro energy.renewable energy.clean Video 34:13, published Sep 30 2022 6 votes
Volcanic Iceland is rumbling again as magma rises − a geologist explains eruptions in the land of fire and ice ~enviro Article 968 words, published Nov 15 2023 6 votes
Icelandic authorities are building protective walls around a geothermal power plant in the country's southwest to protect it from possible lava flows ~enviro energy.renewable Article 13 votes
Iceland volcano won't spew more carbon than humanity – social media is once again filling up with such claims, as it always does when volcanoes make news ~enviro Article 77 words 15 votes
Iceland has declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes raised fears of a Fagradalsfjall volcanic eruption ~enviro Article 38 words 36 votes
Michelin star chef (and possible Viking), Ragnar Eiríksson, guides Matty through an Icelandic winter wonderland of odd food, crazy buggy rides, and steamy hot springs ~food Video 22:02 12 votes
At the Icelandic home of Katrín Þorvaldsdóttir, foraged material like seaweed is turned into masks, clothing and even shoes ~design fashion Article 749 words 8 votes
Swarm of earthquakes in Iceland heralds next volcanic eruption – scientists say rise in seismic activity confirms south-west region is in buildup phase ~enviro Article 313 words 11 votes
Some call us ungrateful middle-class feminists – but this is why women went on strike in Iceland ~life.women Article 650 words 26 votes
In the depths of Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art, a volcano is stirring – Hrafntinna (Obsidian) is an immersive installation by Icelandic artist and musician Jónsi ~arts art.installation Article 858 words, published Oct 3 2023 9 votes
PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir will take part in Iceland's first full-day womens strike in forty-eight years – calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence ~life.women Article 740 words 12 votes
Björk and Rosalía have collaborated on a new song to benefit activists fighting against industrial salmon farming in Björk's native Iceland ~music Article 643 words 6 votes
Aquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural Icelandic regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations ~enviro Article 1674 words 7 votes
For the fourteenth year running, Iceland takes the top position in the Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum ~life work education Article 2951 words 11 votes
Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led team use Iceland as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet's ground truth ~space Article 6 votes
Iceland is turning to taxes to reduce the impact exponential growth in tourism has on its pristine wilderness ~enviro Article 77 words 7 votes
Hildur Guðnadóttir talks ‘A Haunting in Venice’ score, the influence of ‘Sicario’ and ‘Joker 2’ ~movies Article 2635 words 8 votes
Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring ~enviro Article 879 words 23 votes
Icelandic musician Daði Freyr performs some of his favourite songs from home ~music Video 11:18, published Oct 12 2021 11 votes
Volcanoes don't just erupt on schedule – but they have been in Iceland ~enviro Article 1255 words, published Aug 21 2023 7 votes
Iceland's meteorological office declares volcanic eruption near the country's capital Reykjavík officially over – no activity has been observed for ten days ~enviro Article 308 words 14 votes
Operation Napoleon / Napóleonsskjölin | Official trailer ~movies Video 2:45, published Jul 11 2023 5 votes
German Aerospace Center (DLR), a NASA VERITAS mission partner, is conducting instrument field tests in Iceland ~space Article 485 words 4 votes
A volcanic eruption near Litli-Hrútur in south-western Iceland saw fissures open up in the Earth – and the creation of a new baby volcano ~enviro Article 270 words 11 votes
Smoke clouds and lava as volcano erupts near Icelandic capital – eruption near Reykjavík follows week of small earthquakes in area ~enviro Article 478 words 20 votes
2,200 earthquakes have been recorded in the area around Iceland's capital Reykjavík, signaling that a volcanic eruption could be imminent ~enviro Article 310 words 27 votes
Global Peace Index 2023 saw Iceland remain the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008 ~misc PDF 18 votes
Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end ~enviro Link 19 votes
Harnessing Iceland's geothermal energy for agriculture | Focus on Europe ~enviro energy.renewable Video 3:34 2 votes
Now a trio, Sigur Rós explain their search for beauty with their first album in a decade ~music Article 1800 words 13 votes
She makes music that shifts from barely-there sonorities to viscera-quaking climaxes – the thrilling Icelandic soundscapes of Anna Þorvaldsdóttir ~music classical Article 1353 words 6 votes
How Iceland became a geothermal powerhouse ~enviro energy.renewable Video 8:13, published Jul 18 2022 5 votes
Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death ~enviro Article 690 words, published May 9 2023 12 votes
The best childcare in the world? Maybe so, but new parents in Iceland are holding out for better. ~life parenting education Article 1283 words 7 votes
Iceland is a strange place to plant trees, but for us it is one of the most logical places to try and bring back forests ~enviro Video 15:47, published May 11 2023 7 votes
A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised ~humanities.history Article 881 words, published Jan 4 2023 6 votes
Outstanding new composers and genre-hopping experiments – why Iceland has become a classical music powerhouse ~music classical Article 1092 words 1 vote
Íslensku – A delve into the surf culture island of Iceland and the people that define it ~sports Video published Mar 2 2023 2 votes
First account of apparent alloparental care of a long-finned pilot whale calf by a female killer whale near Snæfellsnes, in west Iceland ~enviro Article 3871 words 8 votes
A landscape photography and wildlife expedition to the Hornstrandir nature reserve in Iceland ~hobbies Video 13:27, published Feb 27 2023 4 votes
To prepare for future pandemics, we can learn from the OECD's top two performers: New Zealand and Iceland ~health medicine Article 8 votes
Meet the man building a thousand wheelchair ramps in Iceland – Ramp Up Iceland aim to make everyday life less challenging for people with physical disabilities ~life Article 659 words 4 votes
An exhibition being held at the Kling & Bang gallery in Iceland is the first ever retrospective of the Russian feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot ~arts art.performance Article 642 words 7 votes
Iceland captain Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir says winning a claim against former side Lyon for failing to pay her full salary during pregnancy is a wake-up call for clubs ~sports.football Article 499 words 6 votes
Iceland Foods has lost its ongoing legal battle with the country Iceland over the frozen food retailer's trademark name after the EUIPO dismissed its appeal ~finance business Link 7 votes
Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones ~enviro Article 938 words 3 votes
Beautiful Beings / Berdreymi | International trailer ~movies Video 2:13, published Feb 11 2022 2 votes
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, crime fiction fan and Iceland's Prime Minister, has published her first thriller novel with her close friend and bestselling author Ragnar Jónasson ~books fiction.crime Link 4 votes
Organizers of this week's World Fischer Random Chess Championship have introduced unprecedented new security measures to prevent cheating ~games.tabletop Article 1195 words 3 votes
Driftwood floats thousands of kilometers from Siberia to Iceland, but it may drift no longer by 2060 due to climate change ~enviro climate change Article 895 words, published Aug 25 2022 5 votes
Edinburgh-based Skyrora got its suborbital Skylark L rocket successfully off an Icelandic launch pad – but the booster didn't go far, falling into the Norwegian Sea ~space rocketry spaceflight.suborbital Article 521 words 4 votes
Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments ~design architecture Article 1402 words 8 votes
Iceland offers the best pension provisions, followed by the Netherlands and Denmark, according to a survey by pensions consultants Mercer ~finance Article 326 words 5 votes
An averted terrorist plot and recent shootings in Reykjavík have put guns in Iceland in the spotlight ~life Article 947 words 5 votes
Why it's perfectly normal to see baby puffins thrown off cliffs in Iceland each year ~enviro Article 759 words 10 votes