Iceland

Newly released information from the Icelandic Met Office states that yet another of Iceland’s sub-glacial volcanoes, Grimsvotn, has quickly increased the magnitude of its geothermal heat flow. This new volcanic activity substantiates that the Okjokull “Funeral” Glacier should not have been laid to rest due to climate change. This is acting to melt the thick layer of overlying glacial ice (see here and see here). This increased heat ...

More than 40 years after the first initiatives were taken to ban the use of PCBs, these chemical pollutants remain a deadly threat to animals at the top of the food chain. A new study, just published in the journal Science, shows that the current concentrations of PCBs can lead to the disappearance of half of the world’s populations of killer whales from the most heavily contaminated areas ...

Iceland - While banks are deemed too big to fail for their cunning engineering of a financial collapse and bailed out by further indebting the tax payers of America, Iceland's bankers engineer a similar collapse in Iceland. However, Iceland holds the bankers accountable for their actions, the banks are allowed to fail and many bankers are eventually tried and convicted for their wrong-doing. Reykjavík, Iceland – ...

In 2009, McDonald’s closed in Iceland and on October 31st that year, Hjörtur Smárason bought the last McDonald’s hamburger in the country. Smárason kept the burger, accompanied by fries, in a plastic bag for three years during which it remained unchanged. The hamburger, which still shows no signs of decomposition is now exhibited at Snotra House in Þykkvibær, South Iceland, but previously at Bus Hostel in ...