25 May 2015An article from special supplement from Morgunblaðið on the Arctic region which also follows an expedition undertaken by photographer Ragnar Axelsson, volcanologist Haraldur Sigurðsson and economist Heiðar Guðjónsson.
21 May 2015Iceland Monitor spoke to Axel Björnsson, lead singer of the loudest band in Iceland, The Pink Street Boys who are playing a release gig at Kaffistofan, a student-run gallery at Hverfisgata on Friday night. Björnsson describes the event as being like Iceland Airwaves in just one just one single show.
20 May 2015Thirteen-year-old Viktor Andri Hermannsson decided yesterday to give all the money he received from relatives on the occasion of his confirmation this April to the ABC children's charity. He announced his decision to his father saying that he didn't need anything for himself and wanted to give it to children who needed it more.
18 May 2015Ragnar Axelsson, also known as RAX, is an Icelandic photographer who was born in 1958. He is a staff photographer for Morgunblaðið and mbl.is and has also shot numerous freelance projects for magazines and had exhibitions all over the world. Most recently, he took the new Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) for 80 hours all over Iceland.
18 May 2015"The situation is extremely bad at the pig farm, around 500 piglets are ready for slaughter and we won't be able to wait longer than until tomorrow to begin slaughter," explains Gunnar Þór Gíslason, managing director of Síld og fiskur. Ongoing strike action by State-employed vets has put a halt to slaughtering operations in Icelandic abattoirs.
18 May 2015Pirate MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir made a talk at TEDxReykjavik 2015 on Saturday where she described growing up in a fishing village in Iceland, losing both her father and her husband to suicide and how hardships made her stronger. She spoke of the system, made in simpler times, as no longer serving the people. "We're told every day that we are powerless. That's a lie."
15 May 2015"My idea is to buy less and use more, because there's just too much excess in the world," explains fashion design student Júlíanna Ósk Hafberg who decided to wear the same clothes for 38 days.
11 May 2015Members of the Icelandic Nurse’s Association have overwhelmingly voted in favour of industrial action. Over 2,000 nurses will be downing tools and no end-date has been set.
10 May 2015It's mother's day today and the Icelandic association of bakers have united to sell "breast-buns" today to support the charity "Göngum saman" which supports research into breast cancer.
10 May 2015"We sell tons of blackout blinds every spring. It's the must-buy product of the season as the sun always seems to come as a surprise to people," explains Ívar Ívarsson, store director of Rúmfatalagerinn, a home retail store. People with young children who wake up in the middle of the night due to the May sun shining into their bedrooms are eager to buy blackout blinds.
8 May 2015The Mývatn nature baths have been closed for two days due to strike action by the Icelandic Professional Trade Association (SGS). Over a hundred tourists have come to closed doors. "Tourists can't just come back the next day," says managing director of the nature baths, Gunnar Atli Fríðuson. Whale watching companies in the north have also had to cancel trips due to the strike.
8 May 2015“The decision has been taken to no longer invite Iceland to meetings usually attended by candidate countries,” says Jānis Bērziņš, spokesperson for the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU).
5 May 2015Ongoing strike action by members of the Icelandic Association of Academics (BHM) working at hospitals around the country may lead to more premature deaths, according to Hjartaheill, the Icelandic Association of Heart Patients.
29 Apr 2015Icelandic whale-watching company Whale Safari is organising special ‘adventure tours’ on Saturday, the proceeds of which will be donated to the rescue and relief programme for victims of the Nepal earthquake.
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