Iceland is home to over 30 active volcanic systems, making it one of the most volcanically active regions on Earth. These volcanoes are unpredictable and can erupt with little warning.

Okjokull was Iceland's first glacier to disappear, but all of the nation's ice masses will be gone within 200 years, says geologist Oddur Sigurðsson.

Okjökull will certainly not be the last glacier to be lost to climate change, as scientists believe that the 400-plus glaciers in Iceland will all be gone by 2200. “Currently, Iceland loses 11 ...

Hike Switzerland's UNESCO World Heritage Aletsch Glacier Trail for panoramas of Europe's largest ice flow. Reachable year round by cable car, this three to four hour trek is surrounded by thirty ...

Some 100 people gathered at the top of a volcano in Iceland on Sunday for an unusual funeral. The victim: A 700-year-old, six-mile glacier. Cause of death: climate change. The Okjokull glacier ...

The glacier's disappearance, however, isn't unique. Glaciers are retreating all over Iceland ( and, it should be noted, the world ). "The condition of the glaciers is getting poorer and poorer ...

Glacier tours abound, with ice climbing, hiking, cave tours and snowmobile adventures attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists to Iceland’s 4,500 square miles of glaciers each year.

This Glacier in Iceland Is Fighting to Stay Alive The Falljökull glacier has cut off its lower reaches but the upper portion is advancing once again. Maris Fessenden - Former correspondent.

Mourners in Iceland have gathered to commemorate Okjokull, a 700-year-old glacier that was declared dead five years ago and has shriveled to a small patch of ice atop a volcano. Prime Minister Katr… ...

The Okjökull Glacier in Borgarfjörður, West Iceland, lost its glacier status in 2014 after it significantly melted down, according to Rice University in Houston. Now, as "dead ice," the former ...

Thirty-nine tourists had to be rescued after they were trapped on an Iceland glacier amid a blizzard, according to a tour company. Among those rescued were three Americans at the Langjökull ...