Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Hug trees, not friends — that’s the message Iceland forest rangers are sending to the public amid the ...

Tucked away in the northern woodlands of Iceland lies a cozy new spa set to soothe visitors who are looking to enjoy natural hot springs and greenery in equal measure. Forest Lagoon, designed by the ...

Humans are slowly reshaping the planet by warming the atmosphere, but some of our activities have had a much more profound impact on the landscape. For example, civilization has transformed Iceland ...

Iceland is perhaps one of the worst cases of deforestation that the world has seen. Over the last 1,000 years, the country's forests have been felled for the purposes of timber or pastures for ...

Iceland is trying to ramp up its tree-planting programs, which have doubled its forest cover since 1950. Trees provide many benefits, in addition to storing carbon, and are being embraced by many ...

Larus Heidarsson, a forestry worker, and Maria Vesta, a university student, measure pine trees planted in 2004, in the Eastfjords region of Iceland, Aug. 4, 2017. Despite the planting of three million ...

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Feeling the Coronavirus blues? Forest rangers in Iceland are working to clear roads and paths leading up to trees for people to hug as an alternative to hugging friends and family. On the eastern side ...

Human activities are having a profound impact on the Iceland landscape. It is now transformed from a forested island covered with rich soils to... Iceland Seeks to Restore Soils, Forests SCOTT SIMON, ...