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 ...

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 ...

Multiple reasons have been put forward by historians for the downfall of the Western Roman Empire. Another cause that possibly triggered the downfall has been discussed in the journal Geology. The ...

University of Colorado Boulder geology students spent two weeks this summer studying Iceland, a place of fire and ice, in an innovative field course that helped them hone their critical-thinking ...

Some places feel borrowed from elsewhere. Iceland is one of them. Walk across its lava fields, and the ground looks unfinished, cracked, dark, and still warm in places. Steam lifts from the earth ...

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 volcano in Iceland erupted on Thursday for the second time this year, pumping lava up to 80 metres (260 feet) into the air in what is the sixth outbreak on the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula since ...