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 ...

The Perfect Storm of Tectonic Forces Iceland is the only inhabited island in the world where tectonic plates and ocean ridge ...

Death certificates and commemorative plaques aren’t something you’d normally associate with a glacier. But that is exactly how Iceland recently mourned the loss of 700-year-old Okjökull, the first of ...

"Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path,” the inscription on the plaque, written by Icelandic ...

Iceland on Sunday honours the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate. A bronze plaque will be ...

Oddur Sigurðsson, a geologist in the Icelandic Meteorological Office, declared the largely vanished Okjökull glacier dead in 2014. Five years later, on August 18, Sigurðsson and others will hike to ...

Van life in Iceland has been a dream come true! With my camper van as my base, I’ve explored Iceland’s wild beauty—from ...

Just a few years ago, the Okjökull glacier sat proudly atop the volcanic mountain of Ok in Iceland. Now the icy mass is entirely gone and Iceland is honoring the dead glacier in a unique way. In its ...

Editor's note: This story was rebroadcast on Nov. 10, 2021, as part of our COP26 climate conference coverage. Click here for that audio. 2019 was not a good year for the planet. Despite some ...