Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the President of Iceland, and First Lady Dorrit Moussaieff, are currently sailing to Antarctica, according to the President’s office near Reykjavík. Al Gore, Nobel laureate and former US Vice President invited them to visit the southernmost continent on the planet. Read the full story

The melting of Greenland’s glaciers may be more sensitive to climate change than previously assumed, according to new research which found they can also quickly expand during relatively short periods of climatic cooling. Read the full story

The northern bluefin tuna is one of the most valuable and endangered Atlantic fish species and almost never strays as far north as Iceland. When 12 of the giants turn up aboard and Icelandic trawler, eyebrows are raised. Read the full story

The latest edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World reveals a somewhat different picture of Greenland than in the edition of the book which was published in 1999. Read the full story

A new experiment will assess the viability of storing carbon pollution underground by artificially creating seams of limestone. Read the full story

Three Greenpeace activists, who gatecrashed a dinner of world leaders at the 2009 COP-15 climate conference by passing themselves off as a head of state, his wife and their bodyguard, have been spared jail. Read the full story

The nesting season of many types of sea bird all around Iceland has been poor this year and there is an all-out puffin and Arctic tern collapse in progress to the south and west of the country. Read the full story

Scientists are set to use wi-fi technology to study how glaciers in Greenland break up to form icebergs. The satellite navigation sensors will be dropped onto the rapidly decreasing glaciers by helicopter so their shape and path can be tracked. Read the full story

Scientists are increasingly concerned by the effects of exhaust pollution on sealife. The sea around Iceland is reaching its maximum pollution tolerance level, says one oceanographer. Read the full story

Some glaciers in Greenland melt slower in warm summers than in cool ones, according to a new study. Read the full story