Issues affecting circumpolar nations
COVID-19 and its effect on the military dominated discussions at the Northern Group meeting of defence ministers this week, said
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Restrictions on international business travellers and tourists arriving in Iceland are expected to be lifted in mid-June, with the government
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Iceland has been named the world’s most gender-equal country by the World Economic Forum. It’s the 11th year in a
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Iceland is getting back to normal after being savaged by a freak winter storm last week, with the Icelandic Red
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The importance of upping youth engagement on northern issues was one of the focus topics at the recent Arctic Council,
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Canada’s University of Manitoba and the University of Iceland’s Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages at will team up later
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Archaeologists in Iceland say they have analyzed DNA evidence to show that male horses were killed and then buried alongside
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Forty years after researchers from Halifax (Canadian Maritimes) helped drill a hole nearly two kilometres into the ground in rural
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For the fourth year in a row, Arctic Circle, the world’s largest gathering on Arctic issues convened in Iceland’s capital.
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Tourism to Iceland has skyrocketed during the last years, and is now a major source of employment in the country.
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Today on Eye on the Arctic we bring you another instalment of our occasional series on how climate change, and
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Iceland has been named the most peaceful country in the world, again, by the nonprofit Institute for Economics and Peace. The
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The Arctic Circle Assembly will soon be convening in Reykjavik, Iceland for the second time ever. The conference is the brainchild of
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Iceland’s temperamental geography has gone haywire again with Bárðarbunga, the latest volcano to erupt under the Vatnajökull ice cap. It’s
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Back in 2008, the Ice Blog was born when I was on a trip to Alaska reporting on the “Climate
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