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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    How To Spend It In...
    Helgi Óskarsson’s guide to the Westfjords

    The CEO of outerwear brand 66°North explores the hikes and hot springs of Iceland’s north-westerly reaches

    Helgi Óskarsson in Þingeyri
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Travel
    Postcard from Iceland: for one day of the year, fishermen are the stars

    Every June, communities across the country celebrate Sjómannadagurinn — Fishermen’s Day — and visitors are welcome to join the party

    Illustration of two women and a man in costumes at a harbour
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    News in-depthClimate change
    Glacier gets Himalayan funeral as thousands of bodies of ice ‘die’

    Scientists warn of a rapid acceleration in the loss of land glaciers, compounding climate change

    A gravestone tribute to the melting Yala glacier
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
    Five pavilions to see at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

    From the ‘emotional’ impact of defence architecture to lava as building material, don’t miss these shows

    A wooden house seen against a darkening blue sky
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Iceland bid to join EU should not be driven by Trump fears, says PM

    Kristrún Frostadóttir favours restarting talks for economic reasons and not in reaction to US president’s Arctic sabre-rattling

    Kristrún Frostadóttir in her office in Reykjavik
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    Here come the new climate leaders

    A mega election year is ushering in a different breed of net zero lawmakers

    Ann Kiernan illustration of Atlas holding a burning earth, drawn on a background of a starry sky
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Food security
    Iceland to harvest more corn and less bitcoin, says PM

    Katrín Jakobsdóttir tells the FT the island nation needs food security in a hostile world

    Katrín Jakobsdóttir speaks to media
  • Sunday, 10 March, 2024
    Global trade
    India strikes free trade deal with countries including Switzerland

    Pact promises $100bn investment in boost to Narendra Modi’s economic agenda ahead of elections

    Indian workers stand beside shipping containers
  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Natural disasters
    Iceland volcano erupts after weeks of heightened earthquake activity

    Lava spews from 4km fissure but international airport and power plant currently unaffected

    A volcano spews lava and smoke as it erupts in Grindavik, Iceland late on Monday
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
    Anjana Ahuja
    Volcanic drama reminds us that nature remains in charge

    A river of molten lava is on the move in an Icelandic town

    Andy Carter illustration of an erupting volcano breaking through ice sheets
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    Iceland declares state of emergency as it braces for volcanic eruption

    Town in south-west evacuated as thousands of earthquakes are recorded close to country’s main airport

    Crack in road caused by volcanic activity
  • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
    ReviewFilm
    Godland — immersed in the pitiless landscape of Iceland

    Hlynur Pálmason’s movie follows a 19th-century Danish priest to the island, equipped with a cross and a camera

    A man in 19th-century clothes stands with an old-fashioned bellows camera, looking off to one side; behind him is a rough sea breaking on to a rocky shore
  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    ReviewFiction
    Animal Life — a search for light in a long, dark Icelandic winter

    Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir tells an atmospheric and ruminative story of self-discovery, its mood leavened by glimpses of humour

  • Sunday, 20 November, 2022
    LexIslandsbanki HF
    Spreadsheets: error-ridden models take a toll Premium content

    Sometimes, tools meant to help with accuracy add to the problem

    A customer uses an ATM at an Islandsbanki branch inside a shopping centre in Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    HTSIThe autumn men’s style special 2022
    James Merry, master embroiderer and magician

    From Björk to balaclavas, James Merry’s got it all stitched up

    James Merry in the fields near his cabin in Mosfellsbær, Iceland
  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Travel
    With a bike, you can conquer countries and continents

    Two-wheeled odysseys may feel daunting — but just a few hours in the saddle can take you from one world to another

    Tim Moore and his bike beneath a statue in Seville
  • Saturday, 4 June, 2022
    LexDirect air capture
    Direct air capture: new technology will speed up net zero Premium content

    Costs are at least $250 per tonne of CO₂ removed

    Climeworks’ new Orca plant
  • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
    HTSI
    A manifesto for the vegan life

    An Icelandic legend, Solveig Eiríksdóttir reignites the call for plant-based cooking

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Inside Iceland’s probe into the 2008 financial crash

    Former lead investigator for the Icelandic regulator shares his insights into how fraud was unearthed and bankers jailed

    People demonstrate against the government on November 29, 2008 in Reykjavik, during a weekly protest over the global financial crisis which saw Icelandic banks suffer heavy losses
  • Sunday, 9 January, 2022
    FT SeriesThe power of a mood-boosting makeover
    The scents of Sigur Rós

    An extraordinary family perfumery that sells the essence of Iceland

    The team behind Fischersund – Sigur Rós musician Jónsi Birgisson and (from left) his sisters Rosa, Inga and Lilja
  • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
    ReviewFilm
    Lamb — an unsettling Icelandic film-fable

    Noomi Rapace stars in a majestically weird drama set on a remote farm

  • Thursday, 28 October, 2021
    FT Magazine
    My two-year, 26-country journey to the frontlines of the climate battle

    Simon Mundy uncovers the human stories behind the greatest challenge in our history

  • Sunday, 26 September, 2021
    Iceland coalition maintains majority but PM’s future in balance

    Hopes that female MPs would take most seats in parliament dashed after late recounts

    Katrin Jakobsdottir talks to supporters of her Left Green Movement at a party event in Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Wednesday, 25 August, 2021
    Travel
    A journey to the centre of a Jules Verne classic

    A new range of immersive holidays invites families to step into the pages of their favourite books. Inside an Icelandic volcano, Lorien Kite and his children don helmets and harnesses to try one

    Inside the Thrihnukagigur volcano
  • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
    LexFuture of work
    Four-day working week: Iceland shows the long and the short of it Premium content

    Even bosses stand to gain when workers toil fewer days for the same pay

    A view of Reykjavik
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