Iceland recorded its first verified population of mosquitoes. The cold-tolerant species Culiseta annulata survived Iceland’s ...

There’s a beach in Iceland that doesn’t care about sunscreen or flip-flops. Instead of shells and seaweed, its ...

Mosquitoes have reached Iceland, a place once thought too harsh for them to survive. Climate change may play a role in this shift.

The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, ...

Until recently, Iceland was the only country in the world to be free of one of the most maddening and dangerous insects: ...

For years, Iceland was one of the only regions on the planet without mosquitos. The chilly weather and long winters kept the ...

Before the discovery, Iceland was just one of two places on Earth that did not have mosquitos, “largely due to its unique ...

Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted arrival date of the 870s, ...

Iceland’s frozen, inhospitable winters have long protected it from mosquitoes, but that may be changing. This week, scientists announced the discovery of three mosquitoes — marking the country’s first ...

When Surtsey erupted from the sea in 1963, it became a living experiment in how life begins anew. Decades later, scientists ...

Mosquitoes are ectothermic and typically become less active as temperatures drop. Some species are more cold-tolerant than ...

Teachers from every corner of the country — from Reykjavik to the nation’s most remote communities — will gain access to ...