Experience Strokkur, Iceland’s most reliable geyser, located along the iconic Golden Circle near Thingvellir National Park. This visit captures its powerful eruptions, the geothermal landscape, and ...
Berkeley-based painter John Zurier’s first solo museum exhibition, Matrix 255, on view at the Berkeley Art Museum, includes twenty-two new paintings that demonstrate a subtle effect on the viewer, ...
Take a winter road trip from Iceland’s second city, Akureyri, through a northern peninsula framed by fjords and punctuated by ...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — It has doubled as an alien planet, a Himalayan peak and even the snow-filled fantasy world of the “Game of Thrones.” Still recovering from financial collapse, Iceland can perhaps ...
Some scenes of Game of Thrones were shot here,” my host tells me casually. There is not a shred of disbelief in me as I look around; the area’s landscape is beyond anything any TV series can conjure ...
Iceland is a small country, about one quarter larger than Ireland or about the size of the U.S. state of Ohio. It sits on the edge of the Arctic Circle in the North Atlantic. Most of its 300,000 ...
“Flying in over the black sand beaches and lava fields, I could see that Iceland had the rugged and unusual look we needed. “ Clint Eastwood’s description of his first encounter with the location for ...
Last chance tourism’ brings economic benefits but puts pressure on local communities in an increasingly fragile landscape ...
Iceland’s epic vistas, vast glaciers, soft light and ominous volcanoes make beautiful abstract art in Emmanuel Coupe-Kalomiris’s aerial photos. He's made striking visuals out of the island’s natural ...
Planetary scientists are turning to Iceland’s geologically young mudrocks to rehearse how they will handle the first drilled ...