Hardened lava crunches under your boots. Pungent sulphur fumes shroud the bizarre black landscape. Warm, sometimes scalding steam rises from fissures in the igneous rock. Here at the foot of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of the 30 volcanic systems on Iceland, four are currently active, says Magnús Tumi Gudmundsson, professor of geophysics at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For adrenaline seekers, Iceland’s Katla Ice Cave should be on the to-do list - Jo Hurford/Alamy Stock Photo From the city of ...

Large amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane are being released from an Icelandic glacier, scientists have discovered. A study of Sólheimajökull glacier, which flows from the active, ice-covered ...

“To witness these powerful forces, the roar of Earth, is mind blowing,” says Ingimundur Stefansson, an Icelandic tour guide. “Man is a small potato in such a world.” In part because of our fascination ...