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The man who gave Iceland its name

Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson set sail in 868 to find a rumored northern land, navigating without a compass by relying on the sun, stars, and three ravens released to guide his direction. When the final ...
What if a waterfall did not just fall…but vanished into the earth? This is Gullfoss. Iceland’s golden waterfall. Louder, ...
Frigid temperatures prompted a slew of extreme cold warnings, cold weather advisories, freeze warnings and other alerts.
The climate crisis, the thirst for fossil fuels and critical minerals, colonial legacies and Indigenous rights: A battle for ...
From California to Kansas, these communities built by Northern European settlers and sustained by their descendants offer ...
Forget the 'fly and flop', 2026 is the year of the darecation, where travellers trade infinity pools for high-stakes mastery ...
The detailed archive will provide interesting insights into Antarctica's ice dynamics and weather patterns.
In the darkness of our current global reality, we long for peace. This longing for peace can be actualized by developing a spirituality of peace which is based on a plan of concrete actions to address ...
Readers express strong opposition to Byron Donalds' potential gubernatorial run, citing his support for Donald Trump and ICE.
Western Europe which for the first time in eighty years has sent troops in a growing dispute with the United States, US is falsely claiming it sent its ...
Iceland is the Land of Fire and Ice, and never is this taken so literally. Nowhere else do such utter opposites get squeezed so close together, so unmistakably. Here, eruptive volcanoes roar and spout ...
Scientists learn to better understand the movement of Greenland, as it was slowly pushed over the hotspot that is now located under neighboring Iceland. Nothing stands still over geologic time, and ...