Over the past decade, Iceland has experienced a travel boom like no other. Between 2000 and 2014, the number of visitors to the tiny island more than tripled, from 302,900 to 998,600. Good business ...

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - If any country can claim to be pitched on the global warming front line, it may be the North Atlantic island nation of Iceland. Sign up here. On a purely physical level, this ...

Sigurður Trausti Karvelsson presents an initiative that transforms waste into resources within Iceland’s circular economy ...

Did you hear the big news? According to CBS News, Iceland has nearly “eradicated” Down syndrome! Thanks to prenatal screenings, combined with an intensive genetic counseling program, 98% of Icelandic ...

Iceland’s remote location and harsh climate aren’t exactly welcoming. But its striking scenery, draped with glaciers and punctuated by craggy peaks and steamy geysers — coupled with Icelandair’s fare ...

Iceland offers miles of stark landscape, waterfalls, mountains, glaciers, vineyards, horses, even miniature row houses for elves (squeeze your eyes shut and say, “I believe!”). There are geothermal ...

We’ve all had, for the most part, a bit of a shit year. But at least that’s a struggle that we’re experiencing collectively. While the United States is seriously fumbling its response to the ...

A volcano in southwestern Iceland that has roared back to life after eight centuries of silence has erupted for the seventh ...

Named for the geothermal steam spotted by its earliest Norse settlers, Reykjavik means “smoky bay”. The morning Sjón and I are due to meet, though, it is snow rather than steam that has lowered ...

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Among geographers, historians, and men of letters, Iceland has not fared well. Pliny barely admitted the place was anything more than a myth. An anonymous 10th-Century English poet called it “a ...