Last chance tourism’ brings economic benefits but puts pressure on local communities in an increasingly fragile landscape ...

Hurry, you only have a few more weeks to explore the blue ice caves along the south coast of Iceland, before they are gone forever! Well, they will be back next year, but they will be new ones and ...

Scientists are memorializing Iceland’s first glacier lost to climate change with a plaque and eulogy that will be unveiled in August. Rice University recently announced researchers will join the ...

ICELAND - A snowmobile tour group became stranded on a glacier in Iceland during a blizzard on Tuesday. The outfitter leading the 39 tourists, including some Americans, managed to make a distress call ...

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 ...

OKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland (AP) — It was a funeral for ice. With poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change, Icelandic officials, activists and ...

Scientists declared in 2014 the Okjokull ice sheet in west Iceland no longer fulfilled the criteria to be considered a glacier after it progressively melted throughout the 20th century. About 100 ...