STORY: This is Iceland’s Askja volcano, one of the country’s most active and dangerous. :: Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland It’s been in a state of unrest since 2021. Scientists don't know exactly ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A 30-meter, Komelon-branded measuring tape, a pencil, and a yellow paper form are all Hallsteinn Haraldsson ...

Just a few years ago, the Okjökull glacier sat proudly atop the volcanic mountain of Ok in Iceland. Now the icy mass is entirely gone and Iceland is honoring the dead glacier in a unique way. In its ...

"Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path,” the inscription on the plaque, written by Icelandic ...

Iceland on Sunday honours the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate. A bronze plaque will be ...

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 ...

With 11 percent of the landmass covered in ice, rapidly ebbing glaciers are threatening to reshape Iceland’s landscape, and Haraldsson, 74, is part of a contingent of volunteer glacier monitors who ...

Death certificates and commemorative plaques aren’t something you’d normally associate with a glacier. But that is exactly how Iceland recently mourned the loss of 700-year-old Okjökull, the first of ...

On October 16, Björn Hjaltason spotted an unfamiliar insect drifting through the air in Kjós, a valley north of Reykjavík. “I ...

A concerning development is occurring in Iceland: for the first time in the island's history, mosquitoes have appeared. This ...

Iceland held a funeral Sunday for its first glacier lost to climate change. About 100 people hiked two hours to the top of a volcano for the ceremony, marked with poetry, moments of silence, and a ...

Editor's note: This story was rebroadcast on Nov. 10, 2021, as part of our COP26 climate conference coverage. Click here for that audio. 2019 was not a good year for the planet. Despite some ...