Whether or not you can speak the language, a visit to Iceland is fun — and English is widely spoken. With steamy pools amid a bracing North Atlantic wind, grand views and fascinating history ...

Forty years after researchers from Halifax helped drill a hole nearly two kilometres into the ground in rural Iceland, locals still remember the project, not so much for its geological findings ...

In 2014, tourism was up 100% from 2006. The secret is out: Iceland is a geological wonder.

Iceland, with a population of 300,000, is a geologically unstable volcanic island in the north Atlantic. The country's last major earthquake, in June 2000, measured 6.6 on the Richter scale.

Their findings focus on a formation called the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge (GIFR), which, according to the study, contains geological fragments from both tectonic plates. This evidence ...

Wood was valuable. Iceland, the land of ice and fire, is for geologists what the tropics are for ecologists: an opportunity for an unparalleled field education.

"Iceland is a volcanic country that sits atop a hot plume. Venus is a volcanic planet with plentiful geological evidence for active plumes," said Suzanne Smrekar, senior research scientist at JPL ...

New theory posits that Iceland may be tip of a long-lost sunken continent, Icelandia The continent, experts suggest, may have once stretched between Greenland and Europe before swathes of it sunk ...