Iceland has long been a pioneer in the battle against global warming, tapping its unique combination of volcanoes, geysers and thundering waterfalls to produce all the electricity, heat and hot water ...

A research team studied unusual rocks in Iceland to better understand the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The team believes that rapid climate cooling contributed to a mass migration of people within ...

Some predict the glaciers will vanish in two centuries, which could upset the volcanoes below, causing them to erupt more ...

Photo by G. Lang Farmer Much of southern Iceland has been cut with what are called dikes, which are igneous rocks that have cross-cut the preexisting crust. These rocks have to make space for ...

A volcano in Iceland erupted on Thursday for the second time this year, pumping lava up to 80 metres (260 feet) into the air in what is the sixth outbreak on the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula since ...

Once upon a time, seasons in Gale Crater probably felt something like those in Iceland. But nobody was there to bundle up more than 3 billion years ago. The ancient Martian crater is the focus of a ...

Multiple reasons have been put forward by historians for the downfall of the Western Roman Empire. Another cause that possibly triggered the downfall has been discussed in the journal Geology. The ...

Civil defense authorities in Iceland declared a state of emergency on Wednesday. Warnings of increased seismic activity could cause a volcanic eruption that would destroy the town of Grindavik. “We’ve ...

A river-fed sedimentary plain in Iceland bears resemblance to what might have fed Mars' Gale Crater more than 3 billion years ago. Researchers at Rice University studied rover data on sedimentary ...