Surrounded by the brooding, flat-topped mountains of Iceland’s Westfjords ... “We have Netflix.” All the birds leave the island by the end of August. But I still wouldn’t watch a Hitchcock ...

An 800-year-old Norse saga makes a glancing mention of a dead man tossed in a drinking well after a raid on a castle in Norway, almost as an aside. The poor guy doesn’t even get a name.

Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to research released Friday. Between 2020 and ...

Early birds posed a fearsome threat. But as they responded to these competitors, cicadas evolved sleeker and more powerful wings, according to a paper published on Friday in the journal Science ...

petrels (a small species of sea birds in the same family as the larger albatross) are much more enigmatic. Stephen Hurling, a PhD student in seabird conservation at Landbúnaðarháskóli Íslands (the ...

The 2024 presidential election is ending exactly where it did in 2016: the locker room. Or to put a finer point on it: in the showers at the clubhouse. Donald Trump himself in 2016 was on defense ...

In fact, it was the birds’ size that allowed for its rediscovery among a flock of smaller subspecies of Canada geese. The geese were observed by biologist Dr. Harold Hanson on Silver Lake in ...

"Bird" the humpback whale, entangled in a fishing rope in the Westfjords, Iceland In the remote Icelandic Westfjords, a humpback whale became entangled in fishing lines but was freed by local ...

"Bird" the humpback whale, entangled in a fishing rope in the Westfjords, Iceland In the remote Icelandic Westfjords, a humpback whale became entangled in fishing lines but was freed by local ...