Tourists marveled at the scene captured in the viral clip, with one heard saying "oh my god" as the dramatic moment unfolded.

Over the weekend, Iceland held a funeral to honor its first glacier to die. Roughly 100 activists hiked two hours to the top of the volcano where the glacier, Okjokull, once loomed large over the ...

Citizen scientists have served as glacier trackers in Iceland—and witnesses to the ravages of climate change—for generations. Will they continue?

Icelandic officials and environmental activists on Sunday unveiled a memorial plaque, read poems and held a moment of silence to say an official goodbye to the country's first glacier recognized ...

Oddur Sigurðsson, a geologist in the Icelandic Meteorological Office, declared the largely vanished Okjökull glacier dead in 2014. Five years later, on August 18, Sigurðsson and others will ...

Iceland Makes Memorial for Glacier to Highlight Global Warming "This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did," the plaque at ...

The natural wonders of Iceland never seem to end. Our visit to a glacier lagoon required an amphibious vehicle.

With 11 percent of the landmass covered in ice, rapidly ebbing glaciers are threatening to reshape Iceland’s landscape, and Haraldsson, 74, is part of a contingent of volunteer glacier monitors ...

Iceland has more than 400 glaciers, and they are all doomed to melt if we don't deal with climate change. This haunting memorial plaque assures the future that "we know what's happening." ...

In many ways, Iceland is ground zero for climate change. In July, a funeral was held for one of its 300 glaciers — all of which are melting.

Iceland unveiled a plaque to its Okjokull ice sheet on Sunday, the first of the country's hundreds of glaciers to melt away due to climate change. With poetry, moments of silence and political ...