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Iceland Warns of Russia’s Growing Arctic Military Presence
Times News Global
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August 31, 2025
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Iceland’s Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir has voiced concerns over Russia’s expanding military presence in the Arctic, highlighting it as a “grave concern” for regional stability. In an interview with Newsweek,...
Iceland Issues Russia Arctic Warning
Newsweek
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August 30, 2025
Russia in the Arctic is a "grave concern" to NATO, Iceland's foreign minister has said, as Moscow forges ahead with its military buildup and economic plans for one of the most austere, but strategically important, regions. "The Arctic remains...
Iceland Review Playlist: Oyama’s World of Books
Iceland Review
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August 29, 2025
With its rich literary tradition, Iceland is the country where books are a great deal. Here, reading is still considered a popular pastime despite the omnipresence of smartphones. Libraries and bookshops in Iceland are places of refuge, where one...
Erlendur Fashion Week Iceland Returns With Global Line-Up
Iceland Review
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August 30, 2025
The second edition of Erlendur Fashion Week Iceland (EFWI) will take place in Reykjavík from September 3–7, 2025. Organisers are promising an innovative programme that blends fashion, art, and cultural exchange. Global Line-Up of Designers This...
Urgent action needed to prevent Gulf Stream collapse, experts warn
Iceland Monitor
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Immediate action is needed to prevent the collapse of the Gulf Stream. If the world waits too long, it could be too late. Iceland would feel the effects acutely, as the country would experience significant cooling. This is what Halldór Björnsson,...
Republicans re-up plan to use road safety, climate money to bail out state transportation department
Salem Reporter - Oregon
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August 29, 2025
Oregon Republicans opened Friday’s special legislative session with a proposal of their own to prevent hundreds of layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation and avoid raising taxes, by instead redirecting existing money earmarked for...
Beyond Semantics: Why Bonn’s Climate Talks Stalled over Gender
Hungarian Conservative
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August 29, 2025
In June 2025, a two-week intersessional climate negotiation took place in Bonn, Germany, aimed at advancing key issues ahead of the COP30 conference scheduled for November. During the talks, Argentina requested adding a footnote to an informal...
Iceland's Raw Beauty is Captured in a New Assouline Book
Conde Nast Traveler
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August 27, 2025
Iceland has a way of swallowing expectations and dispersing them as a fine mist over its lava rock fields, moss-covered valleys, and black-sand shores. Since people began arriving at this glacier-topped island in the ninth century, there has been...
The 8 best hikes in Iceland
Lonely Planet
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Few countries on earth issue such a pure call to explore the wild on foot as Iceland. This landscape – the ice, the lava fields, the gravel trails across grasslands – is best experienced with the ground underfoot and the wind (this being Iceland,...
Every King & Conqueror filming location revealed – including a Game of Thrones crossover
Hello!
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August 31, 2025
Another instalment of the BBC's eight-part historical drama King & Conqueror, starring James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, is about to hit our screens. The historical retelling follows the real-life events of Harold Wessex and William, Duke of...
Weather maps show when huge wall of rain will hammer Scotland this week
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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August 27, 2025
Scotland has enjoyed an incredible summer of sunshine over the past few months. The temperatures have kept us toasty and some areas were still basking in 25C as recently as Monday, August 26. In fact, the Met Office have stated that this year has...
Iceland has mostly avoided misinformation. That may be changing.
Poynter
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August 26, 2025
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — For centuries, Iceland has tended to be off the world’s beaten path. It’s an island in the North Atlantic, home today to about 400,000 people. Its language, Icelandic, is spoken in large numbers nowhere else. These factors —...
It's 'throw a baby puffin off a cliff' season in Iceland
National Geographic
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“I don't ever do stuff like that on any other day,” she says. “If somebody would tell me, ‘Hey, climb up that tower,’ I'd be like, ‘No, hell no, I'm not gonna do that.’ But if I'm looking for a puffling, I am going to climb up.” She’s not the only...
$118 extra to drive a RAV4: Will RUC changes help or hurt the climate?
RNZ
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August 26, 2025
Correction: An earlier version of this story contained incorrect figures from Rewiring Aotearoa that did not include the GST charged on the 70c petrol excise tax. Universal road user charges are proposed to start in 2027. Photo: RNZ / Nicky Park...
Crusoe expands cloud capacity in Iceland
RCR Wireless News
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August 27, 2025
In sum – what to know: $175M credit facility backs expansion – Crusoe secured financing from Victory Park Capital to grow its cloud capacity with advanced GPU hardware and cooling technology. Iceland site powered by clean energy – The atNorth...
Briedablik of Iceland defeat Athlone Town in Champions League
Westmeath Independent
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Published: Wed 27 Aug 2025, 11:32 AM Last updated: Wed 27 Aug 2025, 4:52 PM ATHLONE TOWN 1 BREIDABLIK 3: This was our live blog on today's Champions League second qualifying round fixture which ended in defeat for Athlone against the champions of...
Spain’s Secuoya Studios Signs First Look Deal With Icelandic Production Banner Act4 Led by ‘True Detective’ Actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Among Others (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety
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August 27, 2025
Spain’s Secuoya Studios is continuing its international expansion through a new first-look deal with the Icelandic production company Act4 which is spearheaded by a group of high-profile creatives, including “True Detective” actor Ólafur Darri...
$200 extra to drive a RAV4: Will RUC changes help or hurt the climate?
RNZ
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August 26, 2025
Universal road user charges are proposed to start in 2027. Photo: RNZ / Nicky Park Changes to road user charges are a "leap into the unknown" and will increase New Zealand's emissions, a researcher says. Massey University mathematics professor and...
UK weather: Britain to be bashed by deluge of electrical thunderstorms as bank holiday heat clears
GB News
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August 26, 2025
Summer will end with a bang as bank holiday heat erupts into a deluge of electrical thunderstorms. Calm and settled weather is about to give way to wind and rain as stormy weather sweeps in from the Atlantic. Cool winds from the west hitting warm...
Yellow Warning Issued Due to Strong Winds in South Iceland
Iceland Review
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August 26, 2025
We’d advise leaving your hats at home today. Strong winds are sweeping across Iceland as a local low-pressure system brings unsettled weather nationwide. The Icelandic Meteorological Office has issued a yellow warning for South Iceland, where...