Remember when an Icelandic volcano erupted causing mass flight disruptions across Europe, with millions of people stranded as ash spewed into the air? Well, it turns out you can climb that volcano, ...

Read on for five of the world's most stunning icecap experiences. Hiking a glacier is an otherworldly experience, and one you should plan to do sooner rather than later. From the enormous icefields of ...

Hurry, you only have a few more weeks to explore the blue ice caves along the south coast of Iceland, before they are gone forever! Well, they will be back next year, but they will be new ones and ...

From glacier hikes to geothermal lagoons, Iceland offers no shortage of breathtaking moments—but one experience consistently ...

Scientists are memorializing Iceland’s first glacier lost to climate change with a plaque and eulogy that will be unveiled in August. Rice University recently announced researchers will join the ...

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 ...

Scientists declared in 2014 the Okjokull ice sheet in west Iceland no longer fulfilled the criteria to be considered a glacier after it progressively melted throughout the 20th century. About 100 ...

OKJOKULL GLACIER, IcelandOKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland — It was a funeral for ice. With poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change, Icelandic officials ...