Jenna Gottlieb
10 December 2025
If your town became a volcano, would you ever go back?
Two years ago, it happened to the people of Grindavík in Iceland – and yet today, the lights flicker and the boats put out to sea
Read the full article05 November 2025
The world cannot afford to lose on gender equality
Despite pioneering an Equal Pay Certification Law in 2017, Iceland continues to have a pay gap of 10%
Read the full article13 August 2025
The world’s first geothermal record press
In Iceland, where the boundaries of what’s possible are often pushed, Thermal Beets is ditching the harmful plastic ordinarily used to make records
Read the full article11 June 2025
If we stay quiet, Trump might not notice us
John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has a warning for Iceland: stay out of Trump’s line of sight
Read the full article26 January 2025
The colonial scars of Greenland
The Arctic island nation wants to break its ties with Denmark, and its search for independence has brought up horrific stories from the past
Read the full article22 January 2025
What would EU membership mean for Iceland?
The EU has been a long-running topic of debate and now Icelanders want their say
Read the full article17 January 2024
When the earth cracked open at Grindavík
Evacuation orders were issued just hours before the eruption in the south-west of Iceland
Read the full article22 November 2023
Waiting for the volcano has put Iceland in lava limbo
Icelanders are watching and wondering – will lava streams erupt in the high street?
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