Arctic Circle Day 1: A tale of two Arctics
Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson opened this year’s Arctic Circle conference today by declaring, “If the Global Arctic was not…
From Arctic Circle 2013 to 2014, a big drop in the price of oil
I’ve arrived in Iceland for the Arctic Circle 2014 assembly. I expressed some reservations about the conference program yesterday, but it…
Bárðarbunga! Lava lakes and reservoirs in Iceland
Featured image: NASA/USGS TrueColor Landsat 8 image of Bardarbunga and Halslon Reservoir, September 6, 2014. Iceland’s temperamental geography has gone haywire again…