Now it seems to be melting faster than ever. Joining us on the glacier is Snaevarr Gudmundsson, an understated, avuncular man who is one of Iceland's most renowned glaciologists. He has been ...

Iceland may be small, but its strategic importance is vast. As Trump questions NATO commitments, European allies must step up ...

Consider the wish granted. Glaciers were part of what drew Peters to Iceland in the first place. Originally from Ohio, she traveled to Iceland in 2010 to climb 40 glaciers before turning 40 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This video shows a group of tourists taking a tour an ice cave underneath Vatnajokull glacier in Iceland. The glacier expands for 3,100 square miles and it is the ...

“Glaciers cover about 12 percent of Iceland and there are quite a few volcanoes beneath,” says skipper Thorsteinn Gunnarsson, as he plunges his vessel through whitecaps into the chilly Atlantic.

Over the weekend, officials held a funeral for Iceland’s first dead glacier, and it was a powerful reminder of the impact climate change is having on our world. At first glance, a funeral for a ...

Where a glacier once covered nearly 6 square miles of land in Iceland, there will soon be only a commemorative plaque beside a small patch of snow. The glacier, once known as Okjökull ("jökull ...

No wonder Iceland is called the land of fire and ice because in a country literally frozen by time, with 11 percent of the land area of the country covered by glaciers, volcanic eruptions and lava ...