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Akureyri is one of the few places in Iceland with forest.

This small Icelandic city thinks big about going green

The Big Fix

The small town of Akureyri, in Iceland, has set itself a big goal: to become the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2030. It hopes that going green can serve as a model for other places.

a sign outside of a clinic welcomes asylum seekers in various languages

Iceland fast-tracks Ukrainian refugees to residency, employment

Ukraine
A man is perched atop a propeller of a small twin engine plane on a tarmac. The plane is bright cherry red.

At sea and in the sky, scientists brave wicked weather to explore a key ocean current

Climate Change
People walk pass pass a colorful house in Reykjavik, Iceland on August 4, 2017.

Iceland hopes to get rid of the gender pay gap with a revolutionary new law

Business
Kittiwake Iceland

‘How beautiful, the way life hangs on. How brave it is to live.’

Environment
Eight nations share the territory of the Arctic, which is experiencing the fastest changes of any part of the earth as global temperatures rise. The United States will emphasize addressing the causes and impacts of climate change in the region when it tak

As new leader of the Arctic Council, the US will focus on the region’s Big Thaw

Environment

Climate change is hitting the Arctic harder than anywhere else. And when it takes over leadership of the eight-nation Arctic Council later this month, the US will shift the organization’s priority from economic development to fighting — and adapting to — climate change.

Volunteer search and rescue team en route to save a pair of Finnish cross-country skiers stuck on Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland.

Winter storms and intrepid tourists keep Iceland’s search and rescue teams busy

Lifestyle

The combination of heavy snowstorms, high winds and fearless tourists have kept Iceland’s search and rescue teams very busy this winter.

Scientists setting up GPS sensors to measure "accelerated uplift" in Iceland.

Melting glaciers lift Iceland — literally

Environment

As ice sheets melt, Iceland is actually rising with them. Researchers have discovered that the earth is moving underneath the melting ice and pushing the rocky island up more than an inch a year.

Mountain view in Iceland

Take a drive across Iceland, in music and photos

Music

When Tamar Charney went to Iceland, she thought she had the perfect playlist for her trip. But when her rental car didn’t have a jack for her MP3 photo, she had a problem. Fortunately, a local band came to the rescue.

The World

He’s a chart-topper in Iceland. But now with an English-language album out, new audiences are taking notice

Arts, Culture & Media

Asgeir Trausti is a popular singer-songwriter in his home country, Iceland. And now, he hopes to do the same with his first English-only album and tour of the US. One of the biggest crowds he’ll be playing for will be at Bonneroo.