Remember when an Icelandic volcano erupted causing mass flight disruptions across Europe, with millions of people stranded as ash spewed into the air? Well, it turns out you can climb that volcano, ...

There aren't many places on the planet where you can see both active volcanoes and massive glaciers. This Icelandic national ...

Hurry, you only have a few more weeks to explore the blue ice caves along the south coast of Iceland, before they are gone forever! Well, they will be back next year, but they will be new ones and ...

Off the Map Travel has launched a “Glacier Lagoon Adventure” program. The private, five-night tour is available for booking now for dates from mid-January through March 2023. Two new glass igloos ...

Scientists are memorializing Iceland’s first glacier lost to climate change with a plaque and eulogy that will be unveiled in August. Rice University recently announced researchers will join the ...

Oddur Sigurðsson, a geologist in the Icelandic Meteorological Office, declared the largely vanished Okjökull glacier dead in 2014. Five years later, on August 18, Sigurðsson and others will hike to ...

Scientists declared in 2014 the Okjokull ice sheet in west Iceland no longer fulfilled the criteria to be considered a glacier after it progressively melted throughout the 20th century. About 100 ...

OKJOKULL GLACIER, IcelandOKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland — It was a funeral for ice. With poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change, Icelandic officials ...