A biologist at the Marine Research Institute (MRI) created a stir this week after declaring that whale watching boats could be to blame for the recent pilot whale strandings along the Snæfellsnes and Reykjanes peninsulas. Was it noise? On August 6th, Sverrir…

There are signs that Katla could erupt. A geophysicist told Stöð 2 (Channel 2) that he is reluctant to say whether it could happen in one year or fifty years. Halldór Geirsson, geophysicist and associate professor at the Faculty of Earth Sciences…

The oldest bookstore in Iceland recently celebrated its 10,000th customer. Aptly named The Old Bookstore is in Flateyri and has been a pillar of the community for nearly five generations. Eyþór Jóvinsson is the owner and sole employee of the store, which…

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British Labour Party, wrote to Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir on Sunday to offer his support and solidarity. He said she showed leadership on the climate crisis, and he applauded her efforts “to win backing for the…

In early August, the Icelandic Space Agency (ISA) embarked on an expedition to Grímsvötn in Vatnajökull National Park to test the Mars Mission space suit (MS1). Daniel Leeb, director of ISA, led a diverse team of various backgrounds and expertise to the…

In the wake of the recent beachings of pods of pilot whales in Snæfellsnes and Reykjanes, we reached out to marine biologist Edda Elísabet Magnúsdóttir, to ask: why do whales strand? Pilot whales come into shallow waters for many reasons. Sometimes they…

A Wizz Air 200-passenger jet had to land in Stavanger, Norway after an Icelandic man tried to enter the cockpit. The man, who was in his 60s, had been drinking and took medication, and reports that he doesn’t remember a thing. It…

American arms dealer Michele Ballarin continues to try to invest in what remains of WOW Air. The Grapevine recently published an article mentioning her attempts at involvement with the new company, which the company have rescinded and rebuffed. Even so, Ballarin is…

On the night of Tuesday, August 6th, an elderly man heard the distressed cries of someone in danger and subsequently saved the life of a young woman. The Swiss woman, who was in her early 20s, had fallen off a cliff and…

A Belgian tourist has gone missing, reportedly having fallen into the largest lake in Iceland. According to South Iceland Police, someone reported an object floating on the south end of Þingvallavatn Lake, near Villingavatn on Saturday night around midnight. Upon further inspection,…

In this economic climate, every krona counts, and those of us who live in Iceland know this best. Ísafjörður resident and museum curator Björg Elínar Sveinbjörnsdóttir recently capitalised on this well-known fact after noticing how tourists constantly peeked into the window of…