When Vikings arrived in Iceland towards the end of the 8th century, they gathered on a midsummer’s day to hear the laws of the land proclaimed, air grievances, and seek justice. This marked the ...

Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively few people now mostly govern themselves.

Seagrass is a wonder habitat, often likened to the rainforest because of its effect on nature and the climate." ...

Greenland is suddenly one everyone’s lips, occupying discussions in big and small forums, its fate suddenly thrust onto the world stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Can a superpower, ...

Despite its immaculate reputation, snow isn’t always white. “Most of the time, snow does look white,” says Belles. “But ...

As an unabashed lover of all things fantasy, I get a lot of my travel inspiration from popular nerdy TV shows and movies. After seeing Lord of the Rings, I developed a huge desire to travel to New ...

I recently discovered photographer Elisa Hanssen's social media account. The self-proclaimed "professional horse girl with too many other hobbies" lives in Iceland and helps people plan their "bucket ...

Take a winter road trip from Iceland’s second city, Akureyri, through a northern peninsula framed by fjords and punctuated by isolated herring-fishing villages. The scenic road to Siglufjörður from ...

From space, Greenland looks less like a pastoral paradise and more like a frozen shield, its interior locked under one of the ...

While US President Donald Trump has reiterated his desire to take control of resource-rich Greenland, he is not the first to ...

REYKJAVIK — December light is brief in Iceland. It was not yet 4 p.m., and by the time the giant menorah was lit in downtown Reykjavík, the day had already slipped into darkness. A steady drizzling ...

When you look across a field of miscanthus, it’s “hypnotically beautiful,” says Emily Heaton, whose family farm has for two decades grown the first commercial field of this grass in Illinois. Dense, ...