Tag: Iceland
Arctic sea ice can’t ‘bounce back’
A team of scientists led by the University of Exeter used the shells of quahog clams, which can live for hundreds of years, and...
Did human hunting activities alone drive great auks’ extinction?
New insight on the extinction history of a flightless seabird that vanished from the shores of the North Atlantic during the 19th century has...
360 degree virtual dive in Iceland shipwreck
October 16, 2019 marks 360 years since the Dutch merchant ship Melckmeyt (Milkmaid) was wrecked off a remote Icelandic island during a clandestine trading...
Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement
An international collaboration of scientists in Iceland, Denmark and the Netherlands has for the first time used ancient DNA analyses and C14-dating to demonstrate...
In Iceland, a memorial to a vanished glacier
Scientists in Iceland plan to lay a memorial plaque on August 18 at the site of a former glacier that has been lost to...
Iceland volcano eruption in 1783-84 did not spawn extreme heat wave
An enormous volcanic eruption on Iceland in 1783-84 did not cause an extreme summer heat wave in Europe. But, as Benjamin Franklin speculated, the...