Tag: Icelands
Iceland’s Orca Pods Mysteriously Include Baby Pilot Whales
One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of...
Fridrik Olafsson, Grandmaster Who Led Iceland’s Rise in Chess, Dies at...
Fridrik Olafsson, a chess grandmaster who helped make his native Iceland a bastion of the game, in part by defeating four world champions,...
Inside Iceland’s futuristic farm growing algae for food
VaxaBack at the plant I'm looking at an unappetising green sludge. It's the harvested microalgae with the water squeezed out, ready for further...
Lava engulfs Iceland’s Blue Lagoon car park Short Synopsis
The car park at Iceland's world-famous Blue Lagoon has been engulfed in lava, after a nearby volcano erupted for the seventh time in...
Cucumber TikTok trend blamed for hit to Iceland’s supply
Getty ImagesIcelandic supermarkets have been left in a pickle, after a viral TikTok trend saw an unprecedented surge in demand for cucumbers -...
