Iceland is marking the 50th anniversary of the landmark "Women's Day Off" strike, a protest that helped launch a global movement for gender equality, with another women's strike. On October 24, 1975, 90% of Icelandic women stopped work,…
A passenger aboard a Delta Airlines flight to New York said she was left shaken and nearly wet herself after the plane experienced a engine issues and was forced to land in Iceland.
Iceland has been one of the few places on Earth blissfully free of mosquitoes, but three specimens have now been discovered in the Island nation, in what could be a warning sign of a warming world. Yinka Oyetade has more.
For the first time, mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland, marking a striking sign of climate change in one of the world’s few mosquito-free regions. Until now, only Iceland and Antarctica were known to be mosquito-free. Scientists…
Researchers have confirmed the first-ever discovery of mosquitoes in Iceland, one of the last few places on Earth believed to be mosquito-free. Entomologist Matthias Alfredsson of the Natural Science Institute of Iceland told AFP that…