A research team studied unusual rocks in Iceland to better understand the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The team believes that rapid climate cooling contributed to a mass migration of people within ...

Iceland's famous Reynisfjara black sand beach is dramatically eroding due to unusually strong easterly winds this winter, ...

OSLO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - A volcano erupted on Thursday in southwest Iceland for the second time this year, the country's meteorological office said, making it the sixth outbreak on the Reykjanes ...

A sixth-century "mini" ice age may have been "the straw that broke the camel's back" that led to the final disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, a new study claims. Between A.D. 536 and 547, ...

Once upon a time, seasons in Gale Crater probably felt something like those in Iceland. But nobody was there to bundle up more than 3 billion years ago. The ancient Martian crater is the focus of a ...

Photo by G. Lang Farmer Much of southern Iceland has been cut with what are called dikes, which are igneous rocks that have cross-cut the preexisting crust. These rocks have to make space for ...