Articles by: Micah Garen
The Battle For Skaftafell: A New Development Threatens Our Most Cinematic Beauty
by Micah Garen
As you drive east along the south coast ring road towards Vatnajökull National Park, you encounter one of the most…
Artificial Iceland: Data Centres Use Up Much Of Iceland’s Energy, But For What?
by Micah Garen
The Borealis Data Center is a nondescript building next to a horse farm on the outskirts of Blönduós, a town…
Hope Lies In Oceans: David Attenborough’s New Film Offers Warning And Hope
by Micah Garen
By nearly every measure, we are heading for an unprecedented unnatural disaster. Life in the ocean is dying at an…
Whale-In, Whale-Out
by Micah Garen
Will the economics of Icelandic whaling be its undoing? On April 11, 2025, Kristján Loftsson, CEO of Hvalur hf., was…
A Disaster Waiting To Happen
by Micah Garen
Seyðisfjörður continues its fight against open net-pen salmon farming “The government said that they wanted to work for the people…
Whaling Is Back On The Table
by Micah Garen
The government collapse was a gift for the pro-whaling Independence Party The last weeks of the month brought an unlikely…
The Augury Of The Great Auk: The Discovery Of Man-Made Extinction
by Micah Garen
This August I spent two days on Vestmannaeyjar documenting the annual puffling toss, where teenagers, mostly, seek out wayward pufflings…