Iceland has experienced strong winds and heavy snowfall in the last couple of days and conditions in the northwest are particularly hard today, with people advised to simply stay at home. Read the full story
Posted on 25 January 2012.
Iceland has experienced strong winds and heavy snowfall in the last couple of days and conditions in the northwest are particularly hard today, with people advised to simply stay at home. Read the full story
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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 11 January 2012.
Because of yesterday’s bad-weather-induced power cuts in Iceland production at both the Elkem ferrosilicon plant and the Norðurál aluminium smelter at Hvalfjörður in the west ground to a halt. It is thought the cuts cost the companies tens-of-millions of krónur. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 January 2012.
Despite yesterday’s news that Iceland was experiencing a mid-winter thaw, a storm hitting the country today is causing widespread disruption and all unnecessary travel is strongly discouraged. Many cars are stuck and at least one electricity cable is down. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 January 2012.
More than 20 Norwegians are not yet able to return to their homes following massive landslides near Trondheim on Sunday. Read the full story
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Posted on 30 December 2011.
Those in Iceland who say they cannot remember such a snowy December have been proven right by the Icelandic Met Office, which has released details of two records which have been broken in Reykjavík this month. Read the full story
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Posted on 29 December 2011.
While the unseasonably warm weather in Finland has left wannabe ice skaters out in the cold, bird watchers have been counting their chickens thanks to the large number of species that have postponed their migrations south. Read the full story
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Posted on 27 December 2011.
Storm Dagmar attacked Norway on Christmas Night, before continuing to Sweden and Finland. At leans one person died and over 70,000 homes are without power. Read the full story
Posted on 12 December 2011.
A fundraising campaign has kicked off in Iceland to collect money for the Faroe Islands’ search & rescue organisation, which worked extremely hard to protect lives and property when the islands were recently ravaged by a hurricane-force storm. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 December 2011.
Icelandic ornithologists have appealed to the media, asking them to remind people of the importance of feeding garden birds during extended cold snaps like the one currently gripping the country. Read the full story
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Workplace drug tests increase tenfold
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