The Arctic tundra contains a number of low shrubs and sedges as well as reindeer mosses, liverworts, grasses, lichens, and around 400 types of flowers. There are also a number of animals that call ...

Iceland is often called the Land of Fire and Ice. To that, I would add water, rock, and Northern Lights. Its scenery is incredibly varied: waterfalls, mountains, glaciers, fjords, volcanoes, steam ...

Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy resulted from a stunning collective madness. What led a tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, to decide, around 2003, to re-invent itself as a global financial ...

Van life in Iceland has been a dream come true! 🏞️ With my camper van as my base, I’ve explored Iceland’s wild beauty—from famous waterfalls and glaciers to quiet coffee breaks in the most scenic ...

Iceland offers some of the most extreme and picturesque off-road driving in the world - and Arctic Trucks has a fleet of heavily-modified Toyota 4WD vehicles to get you there.

Among geographers, historians, and men of letters, Iceland has not fared well. Pliny barely admitted the place was anything more than a myth. An anonymous 10th-Century English poet called it "a ...

It is only later that day, when re-reading "Wall Street on the Tundra", Michael Lewis's analysis of the 2008 crash in Vanity Fair, that I discover "Nasa scientists used [Iceland] to acclimate the ...

Snorkelling conjures trips to the Caribbean, coral reefs and parrot fish, not frozen tundra in the Summer, titanic glaciers and migrating Canadian geese. Still, I was intrigued, and not just by ...

More than 2,600 Filipinos live in Iceland, a nation of just 393,000, drawn by better pay and a new start in a land of ice – and opportunity.