Like a tempestuous god, Iceland changes its mood throughout the year. When the ice melts, it reveals black lava fields, steaming hot-spring valleys and a landscape alive with myth and folklore.
The former Okjökull glacier, which a century ago covered 15 square kilometres of mountainside in western Iceland and measured 50 metres thick, has shrunk to barely one square kilometre of ice ...
One of these spectacular, must-see remote areas is Landmannalaugar, or the "People's Pools," which is located in Iceland's southern highlands ... glacier down the Hvítá river before reaching ...
Mourners have gathered in Iceland to commemorate the loss of Okjokull, which has died at the age of about 700. The glacier was officially declared dead in 2014 when it was no longer thick enough ...
The Icelandic Highlands was opened as a mountaineering ... hiking the sprawling hinterland and glacier spotting in the ...
In the Olympic Mountains of Washington State, rare Quinault Blueback salmon choke on silt that runs into a river once fed ... their viral 2019 glacier memorial for Iceland's disappeared Okjökull ...
The two-stage drop of the glacier-fed Hvita river creates a powerful display ... The striking orange hue of this mountain range in the highlands of Iceland has to be seen to be believed.
A research buoy used for monitoring ocean climate conditions in the sea close to a Greenland glacier has been found washed up on a Highlands ... into the sea in Iceland. That device, which was ...
The volcano was quiet, its glacier muffled ... graze on open range in the highlands. Being sheep, they eat everything—including birch seedlings. Less than half of Iceland has any vegetation ...