There was a significant risk of explosion alongside an Icelandic fjord this morning where a petrol tanker skidded off the road and began leaking its cargo over the tarmac and into the sea. Read the full story
Posted on 17 January 2012.
There was a significant risk of explosion alongside an Icelandic fjord this morning where a petrol tanker skidded off the road and began leaking its cargo over the tarmac and into the sea. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 November 2011.
The Environment Agency of Iceland has conceded to the Westman Islands council’s claim that it should not have to pay the daily fines charged by the agency for inadequate pollution controls at the town’s waste incinerator and hot water plant. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 October 2011.
Polar bears from Greenland are becoming ill because of chemicals which make their way from the industrialised world to the Arctic via air and sea currents, according to a new report. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 September 2011.
An accident occurred this week which caused the release of waste from a chicken abattoir to flow into a South Iceland river. Read the full story
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Posted on 12 August 2011.
“She couldn’t feed herself any more and died in the end [clogged with] mucous,” says Sigurbjorn Hjaltason, farmer and former Kjosahreppur council leader. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 April 2011.
The British actor and Oscar winner Jeremy Irons is currently in Iceland, and has been staying in the small Westfjords town of Isafjordur. (UPDATED) Read the full story
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Posted on 26 March 2011.
It was revealed yesterday that the aluminium foil company Becromal in North Iceland has been polluting Eyjafjordur with caustic soda waste. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 February 2011.
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
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Posted on 02 July 2010.
Emissions from the petroleum industry declined in Norway during 2009. According to reports from the operating companies; volatile hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide were all at lower levels than in previous years. Read the full story
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Posted on 30 June 2010.
Sweden is fighting the EU in a battle to save a national delicacy made of fermented herrings. Surstroemming, which is so stinky it has to be eaten outside, is thought to be unsafe by the European Union due to high dioxin levels in the Baltic Sea where the fish is caught. Read the full story
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No Motörhead wine for Icelanders, branding too negative
Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival begins today
Multiple shooting in Greenland hamlet
IMF refutes claim it tried to shut Icelandic national theatre and museum
Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
