since the changing course of glacial rivers has an impact on roads, bridges and other infrastructure. Landsvirkjun, Iceland’s national power company, is planning to build new turbines and expand ...

Enrico Ferorelli A River at Risk: Journalist-pilot Omar Ragnarsson has flown his Cessna Sky Hawk across Iceland's wilderness to document endangered terrain. Plans call for diversion of a glacial ...

making it one of the longest glacial rivers in Iceland. And this area boasts one of Iceland's most impressive displays of basalt columns. The best way to reach this off-the-beaten-path waterfall ...

The river that feeds the nearly 200-foot waterfall—foss is Icelandic for “waterfall”—originates at the base of Eyjafjalljokull (kull means “glacier” in Icelandic), and tumbles ...

Iceland´s glaciers are retreating so rapidly that future generations ... have been called the “Water Tower of Asia” since some of the Earth´s most important rivers such as Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra ...

Konstantine Vlasis never imagined that a single track on a Sigur Rós album would lead him to study the melting glaciers of Iceland. But a decade after first hearing the band's 2013 track ...

REYKJAVÍK, Iceland — The record glacial outburst floods that damaged ... under the 900-meter-long bridge over the Skeiðará river. But in 2009, the Skeiðarárjökull outlet glacier from ...

Glaciers around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented pace. A new study published in the journal "Nature" confirms that Iceland's glaciers alone have lost 8.3 billion tons of ice annually ...

This in demand destination still has secrets waiting to be discovered in its wildest and most untamed places — if you know ...

Instead of just watching glaciers vanish, Iceland's tourism sector should start preparing now for a future where they no longer exist. Glaciers have melted at the most rapid rate on record in five ...