The project is described as very extensive by Icelandic standards. The new road section is about 19 kilometres long, in addition to nine kilometres of side roads and four two-lane bridges. These ...

According to RÚV, the woman arrived to Iceland with her husband and one-year-old child in 2024. Due to the family’s stop in Croatia before entering Iceland, the case is treated on the grounds of the ...

Iceland received generally positive marks in the newly released OECD economic report, presented on June 26. The report places particular emphasis on education, energy issues, and reforms to the ...

The weather was mostly gloomy and rainy during our time in the Faroes, but one morning, as the sky cleared and the sun peeked through fast-moving clouds, I took a stroll through the old town ...

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Born from Björk’s album Utopia and growing to embrace her next, Fossora, the tour lasted five years and involved a massive amount of technical preparation: bespoke instruments, a 360-degree sound ...

A special relationship The historic relationship between Iceland and the United States has long been defined by strategic necessity, mutual benefit and occasional tension. Situated at the crossroads ...

The Falling Glacier The interview with Oddur and Kateřina got me excited for today’s glacier hike. I met our guide Antoine at Skaftafell Airport, which is also the basecamp of Melrakki Adventures. As ...

The students and the staff have also been experimenting with the amount of light in the greenhouse. “We use a lot more light here than they do in Holland,” Elías explains. “Because of the latitude, ...

Atlantic puffins are a relative of the great auk, or geirfugl, that went extinct in Iceland more than one hundred and fifty years ago. Great auks were large, flightless seabirds who spent most of ...

Historically, Iceland has maintained a deep commitment to democratic values andtransparency, tracing its democratic origins back to Alþingi in 930 AD. We regularly rank as oneof the world’s most ...

Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, Professor of Ecology at University of Iceland, has done extensive research on mosses and their environments. “There are 606 different species of mosses in Iceland,” she ...