Lee Cowan takes you off the coast of Iceland on a midnight mission that's become a tradition for all involved. It's called the Puffling Patrol, a group of volunteers lending the tiniest of helping ...

Helga Jonsdottir still remembers in vivid detail the day her island home was swallowed by a volcano as she and her family joined others fleeing the molten lava. “As my boat left the harbor, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eldfell is Icelandic for “mountain of fire.” The volcano named Eldfell came into being suddenly on January 23, 1973. It was a ...

A small, rocky island off Iceland is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of Atlantic puffins. When breeding season is in full swing, around 1.5 million adults pair up and nestle into burrows ...

THIS beautiful town was destroyed by a huge volcanic eruption and now its ghostly ruins have started to emerge through the debris. “As my boat left the harbour, the fissure opened up, and flames burst ...

Slippurinn serves a dish guillemot eggs, a local delicacy, in their shells (Credit: Gunnar Freyr Gunnarsson) On the small island of Heimaey, chef Gísli Matthías Auðunsson is at the helm of a food ...

Our expedition ship sails cautiously into Vestmannaeyjar harbour. On one side of its narrow dogleg opening, sheer cliffs are patrolled by seabirds. On the other side, North Atlantic waves surge ...

Iceland's remote Westland Islands are home to the world's largest puffin colony. Every year, puffin chicks get disorientated by light pollution and crash inland rather than flying out to sea. Locals ...

Helga Jonsdottir, who fled the volcano as a child, now runs a cafe on the island Helga Jonsdottir still remembers in vivid detail the day her island home was swallowed by a volcano as she and her ...

Our expedition ship sails cautiously into Vestmannaeyjar harbour. On one side of its narrow dogleg opening, sheer cliffs are patrolled by seabirds. On the other side, North Atlantic waves surge ...