Earthquakes and tremors continue around notorious volcano Katla
The past few days have seen a swarm of tremors around Katla volcano, but yesterday they reached over a 3 in magnitude or up to 3.6. According to repor...
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Sweden lists entire country on Airbnb – Freedom to roam act makes it possible
From the southernmost fishing village in Sweden, resting on the Baltic seaside, all up to the wide wilderness and mountain peaks in the north, the who...
Roads made from recycled plastic may be the thing to come in Iceland (VIDEO)
The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration has funded preliminary research into roads made from recycled plastic waist instead of conventional asph...
Magnitude 4.5 earthquake west of Reykjanes peninsula
An earthquake magnitude 4.5 rocked the south west of Iceland this morning at 3.40 am. The origin of the earthquake was 119 kilometres west southwest o...
Shrinking glaciers are tilting the earth’s gravity point close to Iceland
The Icelandic glaciers and icecaps have lost their ice mass by 200km2 since 1995, This loss of ice mass is the equivalent to 71 times the volume of la...
New silicon factory in Helguvik spewing smoke over neighboring town
The Environment Agency of Iceland has received numerous points and complaints about both smoke and burning smell from the Silicon metal factory in Hel...
Gamer Alert – Big Jam is on and there are some Icelandic minds in the game (links to games)
Five games from Icelandic origin are competing in the BGJAM competition about the best GameBoy theme game according to a report on Visir. Direct links...
The extinct great auk to return to Atlantic shores
The great auk could be returning to the shores of the Atlantic ocean, after almost 200 years of absence. A band of geneticists have hatched a plan to ...