The Living in Copenhagen Diary: entry number one
The first in a new series of light-hearted columns about life as a foreigner living in the Danish capital.
Ocean turbine designer: “Iceland could up its energy production twentyfold”
Valdimar Össurarson runs a company called Valorka, which has designed a marine electric turbine by the same name. The generator won first prize at the...
Dramatic rescue in Icelandic waters
The Icelandic Coastguard yesterday faced a stiff challenge when a large cargo ship lost its rudder off the country’s southeast coast and narrowl...
Iceland’s Westfjords experiencing sudden fish boom
The seas off the Westfjords region of Iceland have been teeming with an unusual number of fish in recent weeks and the town of Bolungarvik has not pro...
Iceland’s new ferry port “built in wrong place”
The trouble-hit Landeyjahofn harbour, built to shorten trips between the Westman Islands and the Icelandic mainland, was built in the wrong place, acc...
Skyrocketing mackerel numbers around Iceland blamed for puffin crash
Increasing sea temperature and growing mackerel numbers around Iceland are having a direct impact on the collapse of sand eel populations upon which b...
Bottlenose dolphin washes up in Iceland
A bottlenose dolphin has washed ashore are Vikurfjara in Iceland. The bottlenose dolphin is a very rare visitor to Iceland.
Icelandic seas under pressure from pollution
Scientists are increasingly concerned by the effects of exhaust pollution on sealife. The sea around Iceland is reaching its maximum pollution toleran...