Last chance tourism’ brings economic benefits but puts pressure on local communities in an increasingly fragile landscape ...

STORY: This is Iceland’s Askja volcano, one of the country’s most active and dangerous. :: Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland It’s been in a state of unrest since 2021. Scientists don't know exactly ...

"It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security," Iceland’s Climate Minister Johann Pall Johannsson said by ...

Two satellite photos taken 33 years apart show the disappearance of a glacier in Iceland that was the first ice mass to be declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change. Okjökull was a dome ...

The natural wonders of Iceland never seem to end. Our visit to a glacier lagoon required an amphibious vehicle. The Yokel-Sarlon Glacial Lagoon has serene blue water with chunks of ice floating ...

OKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland -- Leading politicians and scientists in Iceland say there's an urgent need to fight climate change. They made those pleas during what they called a funeral for a glacier ...

The demise of Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, will be memorialized with a plaque by researchers from Rice University in Houston. The demise of Okjökull, the first ...

In the Olympic Mountains of Washington State, rare Quinault Blueback salmon choke on silt that runs into a river once fed clean by precious freshwater from the now-melted Anderson Glacier. The glacier ...

Iceland is the only inhabited island in the world where tectonic plates and ocean ridge are visible on land. This makes Iceland a real hotspot in geological context. It sits atop the Mid-Atlantic ...

When I first touched down in Reykjavík, I braced myself for two weeks filled with dayhiking and sleepless nights watching the Northern Lights ...