First food powered fishing ship makes successful trial in Iceland
Björgólfur EA 312, an Icelandic freezing trawler, returned to its home port of Dalvík this week after a trip propelled by Icelandic-made fuel, called ...
Icelandic fishermen “throwing very little by-catch away”
There has been a significant reduction in the quantity of Icelandic-caught fish being thrown back into the sea when fish of the wrong size are acciden...
Chicken slaughterhouse pollutes Icelandic salmon river
An accident occurred this week which caused the release of waste from a chicken abattoir to flow into a South Iceland river.
Strong criticism for Icelandic Environment Agency
The Environment Agency of Iceland and the country’s Ministry for the Environment did not do their jobs properly when it came to waste incinerati...
Rubbish weather worrying Reykjavik refuse workers
Reykjavik residents who choose to save money by bringing their own wheelie bins out onto the street could be liable for damages if wind blows them ove...
Icelandic incinerator looks overseas for work
The sale of south Iceland’s Sudurnes waste disposal site to German and American interests is under serious consideration. The interested companies wan...
Finland set to become long-term nuclear waste dump
An experiment currently underway in Greenland is trying to learn about the effect of glaciers on bedrock. This project has been organised and funded b...
Sweden ready for world’s first permanent nuclear waste dump
Half a kilometre beneath the Swedish town of Oskarshamn is the Aespoe Hard Rock Laboratory, an underground maze of tunnels running four kilometres thr...