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 ...
From October 16 to 18 (local time), the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland, became the stage for heated debates ...
Iceland is no longer among the few places in the world free of mosquitoes. Scientists point to rising temperatures.
On October 16, Björn Hjaltason spotted an unfamiliar insect drifting through the air in Kjós, a valley north of Reykjavík. “I ...
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 ...
Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have detected geochemical signatures of magma pooling and melting beneath the subsurface during the “Fagradalsfjall Fires”, that ...
For years, Iceland was one of the only regions on the planet without mosquitos. The chilly weather and long winters kept the ...
Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland ’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ...
Iceland’s most recent volcanic episode on the Reykjanes peninsula, set to last centuries, began with vast magma pooling just beneath the surface. This is the result of a new study by an international ...