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Iceland: On the Front Line of the Climate Crisis
The rise of global temperatures and sea levels have resulted in glaciers melting at a rapid pace. Being a small island in the North Atlantic that is h...
Winter tourism – Iceland’s magical ice-caves
Winter tourism in Iceland, like most parts of the High North, continues its steady growth. The total number of foreign visitors to the country was aro...
Ocean acidification – A grave threat to global marine life
Ocean acidification may be the most devastating result of climate change for mankind to tackle. What it means in simple terms is that the oceans are ...
Artist Gunnhildur Hauksdottir exhibiting in Canada
Icelandic visual artist Gunnhildur Hauksdottir has taken the concept of human-environment to study animals and turned it on its head by trying to thin...
Third Pole glacier melt impacts ~20-25% of Earth’s population
Glaciers are important to life on earth. It is as simple as that. They are critical freshwater resources and they also impact sea level, surrounding a...
Seal-tourism: On Canadian ice with the baby harps
Whale watching is a well known part of High North tourism, where thousands sail out each year from various ports in the North Atlantic hoping to see t...
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Icelandic Creative Agency Short-Listed for a Cannes Lions for their UN Women Campaign
The impactful UN Women Iceland campaign entitled “Gender-Based Violence is Closer Than You Think” has earned Icelandic creative ad agency Pipar\TBWA a...
Interim Justice Minister appointed
Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir, the current industry and innovation minister, will be temporarily taking on the role of Minister of Justice following t...
Residency assured for Iceland and EEA following Brexit
Negotiations between the EFTA countries within the European single market have been completed over the continued citizens’ rights in the event of a no...
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Magic exists everywhere, I have seen it
Barcelona born photographer Sara G. Amo opens up an exhibition of her work next Thursday at Grófinn City Library in Reykjavik. “Magic exists eve...
An overview of Iceland – Drone of the day
The team from “Off To Iceland” has been traveling around Iceland with his team and shooting Iceland from angles that very few people have ...
Crossfit fans can now book trips to Iceland
Crossfit fans around the world can now book trips to Iceland through CrossFit Reykjavík (CFR) as they recently teamed up with one of Iceland’s most ex...