Foreign visitors to Iceland have never numbered higher in the month of January than this year. Read the full story
Posted on 03 February 2012.
Foreign visitors to Iceland have never numbered higher in the month of January than this year. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 January 2012.
The Ice and snow which have covered Iceland for an uncommonly long time began to melt this weekend, causing extremely slippery conditions and danger for pedestrians and drivers alike. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 January 2012.
Bird fans in southwest Iceland are again calling on the whole country to do more to feed wild birds in winter. They fear that small birds are not getting enough to eat and say the economy may be the direct reason. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 December 2011.
The winter solstice this year falls today, the 22nd December, according to the University of Iceland Almanac. Read on for some interesting facts. Read the full story
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Posted on 12 December 2011.
Search & rescue teams in East Iceland have been searching for four people lost in bad weather on Fljótsdalsheiði. Nobody had heard from the group since Saturday morning; but they were eventually found safe last night. 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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Posted on 15 November 2011.
Iceland is experiencing the closest it is possible to get to a November heatwave. Most of the country is without snow and some of this summer’s flowers are even holding their heads high once more. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 July 2011.
The owner and manager of an Oslo apartment building have been jailed for failing to remove ice from the roof that fell on a student last winter, causing him brain damage. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 April 2011.
The darkness that envelopes Iceland during the mid winter will become an attraction for foreign tourists if the Reykjavik tourism bureau gets its way. Visit Reykjavik says it plans to glamorise the gloom overseas and also market the big fat Christmas Cat. Read the full story
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Posted on 26 March 2011.
Police in Helsinki are investigating whether a building manager and service company can be charged with involuntary manslaughter after a pensioner was killed when ice fell on him from a roof. Read the full story
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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
Workplace drug tests increase tenfold
Mythical Icelandic monster captured on film?
Explore Vatnajökull and Jökulsárlón in Iceland with Glacier Lagoon tour
Ocean turbine designer: “Iceland could up its energy production twentyfold”
