Mr. Magnason is an Icelandic writer and filmmaker, he wrote from Reykjavik. Ms. Hallgrimsdottir is an Icelandic photographer.

Evacuations were reported in the Icelandic village of Grindavik and at the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination on the ...

Officials later confirmed that a devastating tsunami was expected near Sand Point, Cold Bay and Kodiak in an update ...

Iceland’s volcanic unrest intensified overnight as new fissures opened on the Reykjanes Peninsula, sending lava eastward and prompting fresh hazard warnings from officials. The eruption, centered ...

A volcanic eruption in Iceland has sparked the evacuation of the world-famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa and surrounding ...

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...

Nazi Creek was renamed Thursday to Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, an Unangax̂ phrase replacing a name originally assigned by World War II-era soldiers.

The Yukon Territory glows—but not with city lights. “Everywhere you look is like a painting” here, with auroras that last for ...

A little-known creek in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had been officially named “Nazi Creek” for 80 years — until this week.

Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...