Iceland

Monitoring CO2 emissions from passenger cars and vans in 2018

This report provides an overview of the CO2 emission levels of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (vans) in the European Union and Iceland in 2018 and manufacturers' performance towards their 2018 CO2 emission targets. The report is based on data reported by EU Member States (EU‑28) and Iceland …

High on Hydrogen

Iceland's ambitious plan of becoming the world's first

Splendid isolation

I s it correct? Can this be done in the name of science? Ever since the Vikings came to Iceland about a thousand years ago the natives have lived in isolation. Scientists refer to their gene pool as fairly undiluted. The family trees of the natives are well documented as …

Icy eruption

a volcanic eruption under Europe's largest glacier

Not a blade of grass...

QUESTION: What do you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest? ANSWER: Stand up You've got it right, because how do you get lost, when there is no forest? Less than 1 per cent of this Arctic Circle island's expanse of 102.776 thousand square miles is wooded, and …

Arctic cod war hots up

The Barents Sea recently became the epicentre of a major showdown between Norway and Iceland. In a dramatic assertion of their country's fishing rights in the area, Norwegian coastguard vessels cut free the nets of 4 Icelandic trawlers and fired a warning shot at another off Spitsbergen island. Although the …

Purity pays

VIKINGS are taking to the market. A thick, yoghurt-like product made by Iceland's Viking inhabitants and pure, bottled water from glaciers are becoming part of the country's efforts to exploit one of the world's most pollution-free environments. Export diversification efforts come in the wake of a sharp fall in cod-catch, …

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