Iceland

Firefighters spray water and foam onto a fire at an industrial facility surrounded by large storage tanks, with hoses on the ground and mist in the air.
Gulf states, caught in US-Israeli war with Iran, forced to stick with Western allies
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A new appreciation for a late Icelandic composer
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Bjork song is homage to her native Iceland’s wild fish
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A deserted street lined with trees and buildings under a sky filled with thick, dark smoke.
US sanctions Colombians hiring out mercenaries to Sudan
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Classical music is not dead — it’s alive in Iceland
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Evacuated Icelandic town in strange limbo
5:32
Volcanic activity in southwest Iceland continues with new eruption
6:51
Iceland and Greenland saw record-breaking heat in May
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Largest Icelandic whaling company cancels seasonal hunt
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Harnessing solar power from space
5:21
Court workers in Mexico go on indefinite strike
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TikTok cucumber craze strikes Iceland
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A volcanic eruption in Iceland prompts evacuations
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Iceland volcanic eruption prompts evacuation order
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Akureyri is one of the few places in Iceland with forest.
The Big Fix
This small Icelandic city thinks big about going green
Glaciologists say that between 1995 and 2010 Iceland’s glaciers lost about a meter of vertical thickness per year. The the “Blue Blob” appeared, halving that loss.
Environment
‘Blue Blob’ slows glacial melt in Iceland as temperatures rise across the globe
a sign outside of a clinic welcomes asylum seekers in various languages
Ukraine
Iceland fast-tracks Ukrainian refugees to residency, employment
Album covers of some of the allbums from artists included in the end-of-year music playlist with recommendations from The World staff. Clockwise, startiing from the top left corner: Adrian Quesada's "Boleros Psicodélicos," Sillvana Estrada's "Marchita," V
Music
A musical journey around the globe 2022, a playlist
Haitian President Jovenel Moise arrives for an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Top of The World
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in overnight attack
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stand together at the Capitol
Top of The World
US and Afghan presidents to meet in Washington amid troop withdrawal
Huge green pipes on sandy ground against a dark blue sky
The Big Fix
Latin American and Caribbean countries use volcanic landscapes to tap geothermal energy
A polar bear is shown in the distance standing on a piece of ice among a large grouping of flat floating ice pieces.
How the Trump administration’s climate denial left its mark on the Arctic Council
A man stands in front of the Skogafoss waterfall in Skogar, Iceland, March 8, 2020.
COVID-19
2020: The year of the primal scream — and other pandemic remedies 
The harbor of Nuuk, Greenland's capital.
China’s Arctic ambitions have revived US interest in the region
Chloe Verlhac, widow of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Tignous, arrives at the courtroom for the opening of the 2015 attacks trial, Sept. 2, 2020, in Paris.
Top of The World
Charlie Hebdo trial begins; Notorious Cambodia killer dies; COVID-19 antibody study offers some hope
A man stands in front of the Skogafoss waterfall in Skogar, Iceland, March 8, 2020.
Need to release stress? Scream into Iceland’s abyss. 
Observers in southern Iceland stand watch, scanning the sea for killer whales. 
COVID-19
Research on whales, cosmos among many studies derailed by pandemic
Man and woman wearing crown stand on balcony with blue, white and red flag in front of them
Women & Gender
What should a first lady do?
Underland cave light
Books
A new book explores ‘Underland,’ the deep, dark areas below the Earth
Building
Climate Change
In Iceland, turning CO2 into rock could be a big breakthrough for carbon capture
A large concrete sphere sits on a brown hill overlooking a slate blue sea.
The Big Melt
In Iceland, a shifting sculpture for a changing Arctic  
A man is perched atop a propeller of a small twin engine plane on a tarmac. The plane is bright cherry red.
Climate Change
At sea and in the sky, scientists brave wicked weather to explore a key ocean current
A child stands in front of a herd of cows in Samburu County in Kenya, one of the many tropical countries that would have a larger hit to its overall gross domestic product if the overall global temperature continues to steadily rise. Climate change has le
Limiting temperature increase to 1.5 Celsius could result in $30 trillion of savings for global economy, study shows
Lava and basalt
Science
Could lava one day be used to store excess CO2?
A copy of bitcoin standing on PC motherboard is seen in this illustration picture, October 26, 2017
Justice
Escaped Icelandic computer thief boards flight with Icelandic PM
People walk pass pass a colorful house in Reykjavik, Iceland on August 4, 2017.
Business
Iceland hopes to get rid of the gender pay gap with a revolutionary new law
Iceland Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir meets people at a stand of her party set up at the Kringlan shopping mall in Reykjavik on Oct. 25, 2017.
Global Politics
Iceland’s most trusted politician is a feminist environmentalist who is the ‘anti-Trump’
Björk's latest album Utopia explores flutes, birds, and past loves
Arts
A-side B-side: Björk, Lullabies and in-between feelings
Campaign poster
Global Politics
Denmark’s new feminist party declares, ‘Out with the racists! In with the feminists!’
This 7-layer torte cake is called a vinarterta and it's an Icelandic recipe.
Culture
Why Gimli Manitoba is the place to enjoy Icelandic cake
The duo My Bubba
Music
The music of My Bubba, which has nothing to do with Bill Clinton
The entrance of the Icelandic Pirate Party headquarters
Global Politics
Pirates in Iceland are on the verge of gaining real political power
Kittiwake Iceland
Environment
‘How beautiful, the way life hangs on. How brave it is to live.’
Iceland's Aron Gunnarsson celebrates after the the Euro 2016 - Round of 16 game against England in Nice, France.
Sports
Iceland hands England an (embarrassing) exit
Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party speaks in Reykjavik, Iceland on April 6, 2016.
Finance
Iceland’s Pirate Party could win big after the Panama Papers leak
Iceland photo
Business
Iceland PM quits after ‘Panama Papers’ disclosures
A butterscotch mountain surges skywards in Iceland.
Environment
Turning ice into fire: How climate change could mean more volcanic eruptions in Iceland
A young Syrian girl is wrapped with a thermal blanket following a rescue operation on the island of Lesbos, in Greece.
Conflict
Icelanders say they want to house Syrian refugees — but in Greece the government and residents are overwhelmed
Tamar Charney
Culture
What we learn from the money we touch
Árstíðir
Music
They covered a 800-year-old song. It went viral on YouTube. Of course.
Ari Páll Kristinsson is in charge of language planning at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, the Icelandic government's language research agency.
Culture
Will Icelanders one day ditch their language for English?
Hulda Hákonardóttir and Guðrún Hannele Henttinen help come up with new Icelandic words as part of the Iceland's knitting language committee.
Culture
The future of the Icelandic language may lie in its past
Volunteer search and rescue team en route to save a pair of Finnish cross-country skiers stuck on Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland.
Lifestyle
Winter storms and intrepid tourists keep Iceland’s search and rescue teams busy
Sverrir Ibrahim Agnarsson, chairman of the Muslim Association of Iceland, inside the group's makeshift mosque in Reykjavik.
Belief
Could Charlie Hebdo happen in Reykjavik? How Iceland’s Muslims try to convince people it won’t
Scientists setting up GPS sensors to measure "accelerated uplift" in Iceland.
Environment
Melting glaciers lift Iceland — literally
A church made entirely from ice is seen during the night at Balea Lac resort in the Fagaras mountains.
Belief
Here’s a church where soul searching can be a chilly affair
Khom loy lanterns launched into the sky
Global Scan
Thailand worries its fiery sky lantern celebration could bring down a passenger jet
Star Trek tractor beam
Global Scan
Scientists come a step closer to making Star Trek’s tractor beam a reality
ISIS hand gesture
Global Scan
ISIS has a new hand sign — and it means far more than ‘We’re #1’
Boy jumps into public pool in Auxerre.
Lifestyle
No Speedo? Then don’t try to go swimming in France — seriously