Iceland
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Icelandic Glacier Runs for President, Sparking Rights of Nature Movement
As global efforts to recognize the legal rights of nature have increased, one campaign took an unusual approach: nominating a glacier for president.
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Making Global Climate Connections as a Pre-College Student
Ava Luke reflects on her transformative experience in Columbia Climate School’s Pre-College Programs, which teach motivated high school students about specific climate change themes through place-based opportunities.
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Statistical Modeling for Glacier Loss: Is It Accurate?
A study based on Iceland’s Bruarjokull glacier investigates whether to rely on statistical models to provide accurate insights into glacier retreat.
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Letting Enchantment Lead the Way: Iceland’s Hidden Folk and Environmental Protection
A new book explores the world of wonder contained in Icelandic myth, and considers how it might spill out of storybook pages and into real life.
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Glacier Funerals Offer a Way of Coping With Ecological Grief
Public mourning for environmental loss could become a vital tool for promoting climate activism.
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In Iceland, Melting Glaciers Give Way to Plant Life
A recent study examines the changes in the foreland of a melting Icelandic glacier. With ice gone, new plant life is springing up and changing a centuries-old ecosystem.
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Iceland’s Most Active Volcano is Likely Headed for Another Eruption
Monitoring and data suggest the next eruption of the glacial volcano could be anywhere from days away to within the next year. Grímsvötn last erupted in 2011.
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Iceland to Commemorate the Demise of Okjökull Glacier
On August 18, 2019, an event will be held to install a monument to Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost due to human-caused climate change.
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The Carbon Vault
The skin of the Earth is the color of tar, Ridged, freshly healed like the seams of a scar. Through salt-spattered sky, a gray-winged gull sails; Steam gently rises, the island exhales.
