Iceland has long been a pioneer in the battle against global warming, tapping its unique combination of volcanoes, geysers and thundering waterfalls to produce all the electricity, heat and hot water ...

15 May 2007 – The hot volcanic vents of Iceland may be harnessed to bring electrical power to mainland Europe and Britain if a plan to pipe geothermal energy under the North Sea comes to fruition. The ...

When most countries plan infrastructure projects, the process is dominated by engineers, economists, and politicians. In ...

A research team studied unusual rocks in Iceland to better understand the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The team believes that rapid climate cooling contributed to a mass migration of people within ...

Planetary scientists are turning to Iceland’s geologically young mudrocks to rehearse how they will handle the first drilled cores from Mars, using the island’s volcanic landscapes as a stand-in for ...

Elf culture is a legitimate thing in Iceland. Not only does much of the country's folklore revolve around pint-sized elves, but many people around the world believe in their existence. So much so, ...

A volcano in Iceland erupted on Thursday for the second time this year, pumping lava up to 80 metres (260 feet) into the air in what is the sixth outbreak on the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula since ...

Once upon a time, seasons in Gale Crater probably felt something like those in Iceland. But nobody was there to bundle up more than 3 billion years ago. The ancient Martian crater is the focus of a ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — The terrain in Iceland is so rough that astronaut Neil Armstrong and others trained here in preparations for landing on the moon. The landscape on the 30-mile bus ride from the ...

A comparison of chemical and climate weathering of sedimentary rock in Mars' Gale Crater indicate the region's mean temperature billions of years ago was akin to current conditions on Iceland. Once ...