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View across the Blue Lagoon, the new lava, the defense wall, and a natural threshold that directs the lava to the west. The photo was taken with a 360° camera and is therefore a wide image and the proportions are slightly distorted. Next in the photo is the road that crosses the dam, but you can see that an old lava field lies just beyond it and to the west. The lava field acts as a natural threshold and pushes the lava to the west.

Photos: Natural threshold is taking over

22 Nov The lava flow that is now flowing along the defense walls and yesterday crossed the parking lots at the Blue Lagoon has reached a natural threshold just south of where the parking lots were and are starting to flow to the west.

Ásrún Kristinsdóttir talked to mbl.is last night.

"We were rather expecting a red Christmas"

21 Nov Ásrún Helga Kristinsdóttir, president of Grindavík's town council, says it was a surprise that the eruption should start now. Her husband and older daughter had to evacuate Grindavík under loud siren blasts.

It has been very busy today at arekstur.is and the company has received around 30 calls due to collisions.

The phone has been ringing off the hook

15 Nov Kristján Kristjánsson, manager at Árekstur.is (traffic collision helpline), says the phone has been ringing off the hook for about three hours. He asks people to drive carefully.

Memorable and engaging

14 Nov Members of the rescue teams at Landsbjörg are now mourning a good friend after the fatal accident on November 3, when Sigurður Kristófer McQuillan Óskarsson died during training at Tungufljót River.

Valdís Guðmundsdóttir and Hjörtur Már Gestsson at home in Álftanes with their children, Bragi Freyr and Áslaug Líf.

“We just had to start over”

14 Nov A lot has been built in Álftanes in the last few years, for example, terraced and apartment buildings, and in the last few months several people from Grindavík have settled in apartments there.

Last Wednesday, Jón Ingi Þorvaldsson set a world record in skydiving in the category of two patterns when he jumped together with 150 others from seven planes over the Skydive Arizona area, one of the largest skydiving areas in the world.

Jón Ingi Þorvaldsson is the new world record holder in the pattern parachute jump

10 Nov "It's naturally a huge honor to jump with this group. It's like getting the chance to do group gymnastics with Simon Biles and the entire US national team, Nadia Comăneci and ten other world champions between them, and then some amateurs like me."

Eyþór Arnalds: "I'm just getting started"

8 Nov "It's just anticipation," says Eyþór Arnalds, former leader of the Independence Party and musician, who will perform at the Icelandic music festival Iceland Airwaves tomorrow, Saturday.

Parents from two kindergartens in the capital area gathered in large numbers at the town hall to draw attention to their situation.

Say children a discriminated against by this selective strike action

5 Nov Parents of children in preschools where teacher strikes are currently ongoing, most of them from the Preschool Drafnarsteinn in Vesturbær but also from Seltjarnarnes’s Preschool, protested the strike action of the Icelandic Teachers' Union in Reykjavík City Hall today. The parents that mbl.is spoke to find it unfair that their children are the only ones on indefinite strike, but there is a strike at four kindergartens in the country as a whole, including one in Reykjavík.

Jónas Þór Viðarsson and Arnþór Þórsteinsson have now announced a Christmas concert to support Sigrún Björg Aðalgeirsdóttir, who was involved in a traffic accident in Kelduhverfi in Öxarfjörður.

"Everyone is willing to help"

5 Nov "In these small communities, if something happens, everyone just shows up and lends a hand," says Jónas Þór Viðarsson, a musician who, together with his colleague Arnþór Þórsteinsson, plans to hold a Christmas concert in support of Sigrún Björg Aðalgeirsdóttir, who had, along with her infant son, in a traffic accident in Kelduhverfi in Öxarfjörður last month.

Representatives of the Civil Defense and the Icelandic Met Office met last night.

Met at night due to a suspected magma run

4 Nov The on-call shift of Civil Protection and Emergency Management met with the Icelandic Meteorological Agency before the decision was made not to launch the entire system following the suspicion that a magma run had begun at Sundhnúkagígar crater row.

The group gathered at Hvítársnes, probably in the 90s.

Four hundred walks

3 Nov The beginning of the lifelong friendship of the hiking group “Fet fyrir fet” (Step by Step) was in the Scout organization (WAGGS). The walking group was founded in 1988, but the friends met much earlier, in childhood. For 35 years, the group has been walking together one Sunday a month, but in addition, there have been longer trips in the summer, both here at home and abroad. A journalist went to the home of the couple Pálína Sigurbergsdóttir and Stefán Kjartansson to hear more about this unique group of friends, and Margrét Elísabet Jónsdóttir, Arnlaugur Guðmundsson, and Halldór S. Magnússon were also there to tell stories.

Father and son from Suðurnes are both running in the coming elections, but for different parties.

Father and son running for different parties in the coming elections

28 Oct Father and son Ólafur Þór Ólafsson and Júlíus Viggó Ólafsson are both on the candidate list for the upcoming parliamentary elections, but for their respective parties and in their respective constituencies.

A large part of the world population of whimbrels are in Iceland.

"Drastic changes" could occur in bird life

26 Oct There are indications that there is a considerable decline in the number of common species of waders and shore birds in the South og Iceland. If the trend of recent years continues, these birds could become extremely rare in the countryside in the coming decades.

Grímsson is considering politics after almost 40 years in the police

23 Oct The man who is the face of the police in most of Iceland's serious crime cases is considering changing careers after serving for almost 40 years.

Southern Norway is renowned for its natural beauty, not least the small town of Mandal, but the island of Hille is just off the coast. A 24-year-old bottle of a ten-year-old girl from Akureyri was recently found there.

Found an Icelander's message in a bottle

23 Oct "I thought to myself that now I had finally found a treasure," says Erle Tronstad Sagebakken, a fourteen-year-old girl from Lindesnes in southern Norway, in an interview with the local newspaper Lindesnes Avis.