Iceland News

Iceland is to join the growing rush of countries aiming to tap into the potentially vast oil and gas reserves of the Arctic.

The much-ignored Skagafjordur in the northwest of Iceland offers a magical escape from Reykjavik and there are rare wonders to indulge in.

Visitors to unifem.is can register their names to a petition in support of the initiative until November 6. Then the petition will be sent to the headquarters of UNIFEM in New York where the global initiative ...

Successful series of measurements in Arctic sea ice - RV Polarstern completes work in the Fram Strait and enters port in Reykjavik The German Research Vessel Polarstern had to prove its ice breaking ...

Iceland has a reputation for clean energy, and is usually the textbook example of clean, green geothermal energy.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following the decision of the Icelandic government to start tendering exclusive licences in January 2009 for oil exploration in the Dreki area , an ...

The President of Iceland, Mr. Slafur Ragnar Grimsson, will inaugurate Driving Sustainability '08, an exclusive international platform for sustainable energy solutions for transport, at Hilton Reykjavik Nordica, ...

Remains of what is believed to be a well have been discovered in an archeological excavation project by the Althingi parliamentary building on the corner of Tjarnargata and Kirkjustraeti in downtown Reykjavik.

The Saving Iceland group has worked to get their issue into the minds of every Icelander.

Why Am I not President? Last week 'lafur Ragnar Gr msson was inaugurated as president for the fourth time.

Destination Europe is offering special car, hotel and airfare packages to Iceland, with its awesome scenery and one of a kind experiences.

AMD has finally thrown its 790GX chipset at the "performance" gaming crowd. The platform, available from today, integrates ATI Radeon HD 3300 graphics with Phenom CPUs can clock speeds of up to 3.2GHz by using ...

And made of hard stuff like marble, granite, brick and steel. Careful, if you rub them to hard they might explode.

Just when I thought Iceland was one of the few places on earth that hadn't succumbed to the Islamic cancer.

Olga Bergmann, Panorama, 2001. Courtesy of the artist. REYKJAVIK.- This exhibition includes many new works of photography and video art by Iceland's most outstanding artists, building on their disparate ideas ...

The inhabitants of Arneshreppur, a municipality in the remote eastern West Fjords Strandir region which only has a population of 49, fear about their future in light of a recent bleak report from the Institute ...

World peace is all very well, but what 3-year-old Cabral Corvelo really wants is "To make a water balloon and a pancake." His wish joined dozens of others carefully written out and tied to the branches of 21 ...

So, being sick of Reykjavik and its stink weather I became a tourist and booked a day bus tour on a circuit to some of Icelands most well known scenic locations.

Iceland's president since 1996, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, was on Friday officially sworn in for a fourth four-year term, which he was granted without an election since he was the only candidate.

The plant not only threatens wild Icelandic plants, it is also dangerous for humans.