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A sixth-century "mini" ice age may have been "the straw that broke the camel's back" that led to the final disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, a new study claims...By studying rocks carried by icebergs from Greenland all the way to Iceland's west coast, a team of researchers has uncovered what they believe is more evidence for the severity of this mini ice age. Their findings, published April 8 in the journal Geology, point to the prolonged cooling being a key factor in the eventual decline of the Western Roman Empire — although not all historians agree...Economic crisis, government corruption,...

Explanation: What if the Sun and Moon rose together? That happened yesterday over some northern parts of planet Earth as a partial solar eclipse occurred shortly after sunrise. Regions that experienced the Moon blocking part of the Sun included northeastern parts of North America and northwestern parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The featured image was captured yesterday over the Grábrók volcanic crater in Iceland where much of the Sun became momentarily hidden behind the Moon. The image was taken through a cloudy sky but so well planned that the photographer's friend appeared to be pulling the Sun out from...

Iceland’s minister for children has abruptly resigned after shockingly admitting she had a baby more than 30 years ago with a 16-year-old boy — who ended up coughing up child support.

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte agreed with US President Donald Trump regarding Greenland, particularly on the issue of defense, Bild reports. "When it comes to defense in the Arctic, Trump is right. What I think is very good is that the Prime Minister of Denmark immediately began negotiations with President Trump. Essentially, it was about the high relevance of defense in the far north," he said. According to Rutte, this applies not only to Greenland but also to Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Canada. "We all need to work together to protect these territories. And Trump is right," emphasized the...

Baroarbunga, one of the largest volcanoes in the whole of Iceland, has seen 130 earthquakes shatter its surrounding surfaces in just five hours, leading many to feel a full scale eruption will force flights to be severely disrupted. Iceland has been the unfortunate home of many severe volcanic eruptions, with the most famous in recent times coming in 2010, when Eyjafjallajokull erupted, causing some 20 countries to close their airspace completely to travellers, impacting 10 million passengers looking to fly through, and out of Europe, as 100,000 flights were called off, and 80 million dollars was lost due to airport...

Common in the Middle Ages, palimpsests are works written on calf hide vellum pages, where the earlier ink has been scraped off and replaced with new writing. While some underlying text can occasionally be made out with the naked eye, technologies such as infrared bring to light words that were lost centuries ago...Iceland's connections to Scandinavia led to some of the most well-preserved information from the Viking Age, including an overview of Norway's royal lineage through the death of Magnus V Erlingsson in 1184. The islands's ancient poets, known as Skalds, were highly sought after across the Norse world. Norwegian...

My discussion with Danny Jones on the Danny Jones Podcast about the archaeological evidence behind the Phoenicians discovering the Americas 2,000 years before Columbus!Did Phoenicians Discover America 2,000 years before Columbus? [9:11]Luke Caverns | 56.2K subscribers | 9,215 views | November 11, 2023

Sexual assault was more closely associated with PTSD symptoms than a slew of other stressful life experiences. On paper, Iceland should be a haven for women. The high-income Nordic country has topped the World Economic Forum’s global gender equality rankings for 15 years in a row, and for the past half-century, women and men have been equally likely to lead the country. But the island nation’s international reputation comes with a striking caveat, a major new analysis shows: about 40 per cent of Icelandic women have been sexually or physically assaulted, and many are grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)....

I'm in one of the world's volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano. A short distance away I can see the rim of the volcano's crater lake, while to the south steam vents and mud pools bubble away. Krafla has erupted around 30 times in the last 1,000 years, and most recently in the mid-1980s. Bjorn Guðmundsson leads me to a grassy hillside. He is running a team of international scientists who plan to drill into Krafla's magma. “We’re standing on the spot where we are going to drill,” he says. The Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) intends to advance...

Have the greenies ever heard of these crazy things called trees? First, the story, from a report out at The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday: In May this year, on the flat plains of an Icelandic geothermal reserve, a gigantic vacuum cleaner designed to suck planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the sky was switched on. The machine, called Mammoth, would not be entirely out of place on a Mad Max set. It will soon start extracting up to 36,000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere a year to be fossilised, locking it safely and permanently underground. And, here’s some context, from...

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LONDON (AP) – Halla Tomasdottir, a businesswoman and investor, has won Iceland’s presidential election, topping a crowded field of candidates in which the top three finishers were women, the country’s national broadcast service reported. Tomasdottir was elected to the largely ceremonial post with 34.3% of the vote, defeating former Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, with 25.2%, and Halla Hrund Logadottir, with 15.5%, RUV said Sunday.

In a matter of minutes, Shane Gillis deftly put to bed one of the most nefarious lies of the pro-abortion left: that killing preborn babies with Down syndrome is the merciful thing to do.Shane Gillis, the stand-up comedian who’s partly famous for being fired as a cast member from “Saturday Night Live” before he even debuted, was somehow invited back to host the show over the weekend. Of course, that honor allowed him to deliver the iconic monologue. For Gillis — surrounded by the unfunny scolds who fired him in 2019 in part for making the type of joke that’s...

A volcano began erupting in southwestern Iceland early Thursday, sending lava jets as high as 80 meters, the country’s weather office said. "At 5:30 this morning an intense seismic activity started north-east of mt. Sýlingarfell. Around 30 minutes later, a volcanic eruption started at the site,” the Icelandic Met Office said. Images taken by an Icelandic Coast Guard's surveillance flight appeared to show the eruption taking place at a location near the Dec. 18 eruption, official said. Fullscreen button A volcano spews lava and smoke as it erupts on Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland, February 8, 2024. A volcano spews lava and...

Lava moving towards Grindavík, Iceland after new fissure opens

“We are looking at a worst-case scenario,” said Thorvaldur Thordarson, an Icelandic volcanologist. The last time I checked on the volcano in Iceland, one of the nation’s geologists noted that the threat of an eruption had decreased by 90% due to the solidification of magma around the active center of seismic activity near the town of Grindavík. Like many “expert” scientific projections in recent history, this one was less than entirely predictive. Today, about an hour after an earthquake swarm, the fissure volcano erupted about two miles from Grindavik. A volcano in southwestern Iceland began erupting Monday with lava fountains...

Update 22:46 A volcanic eruption has begun on the Reykjanes peninsula and Þorvald Þórðarson, a volcanologist, tells us that at first glance it is the worst-case scenario. The eruption appears to be at Hagafell, above Grindavík.

Lava has reached the surface in Iceland

The IMO said that magma - molten rock - was accumulating at a depth of around 5km (3m) northwest of Thorbjorn mountain. The Blue Lagoon is easily visible from the mountain. The owners of the famed turquoise hot springs said they would close the site until 16 November out of concern for employees' welfare. The Met Office said an earthquake of 5.0 magnitude, the largest since the increased activity began, was detected shortly past midnight on Thursday in the Fagradalsfjall volcanic area, around 30km from the capital Reykjavik. Ingibjorg Lilja Omarsdottir of the Icelandic Civil Protection Agency has been posted...