The Icelandair flight from RDU to Iceland landed at the Keflavik airport early Friday morning. From there it was a full day of taking in the sights and history of Reykjavík. The first stop on the tour ...

A photo of a cave where the side walls are ribbed and lit in a butterfly pattern. Credit: Craig Bettenhausen/C&EN C&EN reporter Craig Bettenhausen was in Iceland in early October en route from the ...

Iceland is the Land of Fire and Ice, and never is this taken so literally. Nowhere else do such utter opposites get squeezed so close together, so unmistakably. Here, eruptive volcanoes roar and spout ...

An Icelandic archaeologist believes that Gaelic-speaking settlers from Ireland and Scotland had a profound impact on Iceland's language, landscape, and literature. Thorvaldur Fridriksson's new book ...