Iceland

‘The strangeness seeped into the music’: how Iceland’s midnight sun inspired Jezabels’ Heather Shannon

The Australian musician talks about creating her aching, jagged new album of solo piano compositions in the wake of chemotherapy

Nick Buckley

03, Oct, 2021 @10:23 PM

‘He’s so majestic’: Wally the walrus hits Iceland on tour of Europe

Experts hope he is resting and building up blubber reserves before returning to Arctic to look for mate

Miranda Bryant

01, Oct, 2021 @9:06 AM

Iceland Is Best review – quirky coming-of-age indie never takes off

Feisty teenager Sigga longs to move to California from her small hometown in Iceland. At least the scenery’s interesting

Phuong Le

06, Sep, 2021 @1:00 PM

Terrawatch: witnessing a ‘lava shield’ volcano form

Icelanders have been treated to a spectacular geological phenomenon with the Fagradalsfjall eruption

Kate Ravilious

07, Jul, 2021 @5:00 AM

UK strikes trade deal with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein

Digital documents to be used to cut post-Brexit paperwork under agreement hailed by Liz Truss as ‘massive boost’

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

04, Jun, 2021 @4:01 PM

EU citizens applying for settled status face legal limbo due to backlog

UK settlement scheme closes on 30 June, but Home Office has 320,000 applications to process

Lisa O'Carroll

10, May, 2021 @2:25 PM

England’s travel green list sends Madeira flight bookings soaring

Portugal is only major European ‘sun and sand’ destination on list of countries for quarantine-free travel

Ben Quinn, Hilary Osborne and Sam Jones

10, May, 2021 @1:04 PM

‘Green list’ guide: the countries travellers from England can visit

The government has revealed the destinations to which quarantine-free holidays will be allowed

Andy Pietrasik, Isabel Choat, Lucy Campbell and Kevin Rawlinson

07, May, 2021 @6:02 PM

What we lose when we lose our glaciers

To enter a world of ice and rock is to witness the sublime, a sensory paradox of perspective-shifting unreality

Gaia Vince

28, Apr, 2021 @3:00 PM

EU states begin using single-dose J&J Covid vaccine

Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus jab rolled out after backing from European Medicines Agency

Jon Henley Europe correspondent

22, Apr, 2021 @2:24 PM

Lava in a cold climate: Icelanders rush to get wed at volcano site

The ‘quiet’ eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula lets scientists, the public and even marrying couples enjoy the spectacle close up

Harriet Sherwood

18, Apr, 2021 @7:45 AM

Several EU countries suspend AstraZeneca vaccine to investigate blood clot cases

European Medicines Agency say ‘benefits outweigh its risks’ and vaccine can continue to be used