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Bid to secure spot for glacier in Icelandic presidential race heats up

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 15:51

Idea Angela Rawlings had a decade ago for Snæfellsjökull has snowballed into a full blown campaign with a team of 50 people

Standing in the shadow of Iceland’s Snæfellsjökull, – a 700,000-year-old glacier perched on a volcano and visible to half the country’s population on any given day – in 2010, Angela Rawlings was struck by an unconventional thought.

“It suddenly just came to me. What if the glacier was president?” said Rawlings. It was a seemingly unorthodox way to push forward a movement that was already swiftly advancing; Ecuador had enshrined legal rights for nature while Māori in New Zealand were working to secure legal personhood for the Whanganui River.

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A moment that changed me: I was paralysed on a climb. Then I made the 100-mile journey back to myself

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 17 April - 06:00 · 1 minute

Seven years after a terrible fall, I teamed up with two other disabled sportsmen to scale Iceland’s highest peak. With each drive of my poles into the snow, I came closer to the man I’d once been

The view from the top was breathtaking. It was 2023 and I had just climbed the Hvannadals Peak in Iceland, almost seven years after becoming paralysed from the chest down after a climbing fall. Raging winds had been replaced by crystal clear blue skies. My two teammates and I were on our way to becoming the first all-disabled team to cross Europe’s largest ice cap, the mighty Vatnajökull glacier, unsupported and unassisted.

A year before, when Niall McCann first suggested making the 100-mile trip, I was excited by the prospect of returning to this lost world of crevasses, mountains and ice, but apprehensive and anxious about whether I’d struggle. A small part of me thought about how much easier it would be if I could still walk. Back then, I often put a positive spin on my situation, but I still would have given anything for my legs to work and to be able to walk again.

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King Sejong and a Dior catwalk: photos of the day – Tuesday

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 16 April - 12:28

The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world

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Iceland appoints Bjarni Benediktsson to replace Katrín Jakobsdóttir as PM

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 10 April - 12:14

Benediktsson takes over as Jakobsdóttir steps down after six years as PM to run in presidential elections

Iceland has appointed Bjarni Benediktsson to replace Katrín Jakobsdóttir as prime minister after she resigned to run in the country’s upcoming presidential election.

Benediktsson, who was previously the Nordic country’s foreign minister, officially took over from Jakobsdóttir on Tuesday night after she stood down following more than six years in office.

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Cracking geysers: the world’s most thrilling hot springs – in pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 3 April - 06:00

They can be sacred, space-like, healing or heart-shaped – and anywhere on Earth. Even war can’t get between people and natural springs, as Greta Rybus shows in her latest photobook

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Ukraine defeat Iceland in playoff final to qualify for Euro 2024

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 26 March - 21:38

Ukraine have qualified for the Euro 2024 finals after a 2-1 victory over Iceland in their playoff final thanks to Mykhailo Mudryk’s late winner.

Serhiy Rebrov’s side have been unable to play in Ukraine throughout qualifying because of the ongoing conflict with Russia.

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Euro 2024 roundup: Poland, Iceland and Greece qualify for playoff finals

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 21 March - 22:34

Frankowski sparks Poland’s 5-1 win against Estonia
Iceland beat Israel 4-1; Greece thrash Kazakhstan 5-0

Poland hammered lacklustre Estonia 5-1 in their Euro 2024 playoff semi-final on Thursday after the visitors were left with 10 men before the half-hour mark.

Poland will travel to Cardiff on Tuesday to face Wales in the Path A final after Rob Page’s side beat Finland 4-1 in the other semi-final clash.

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Iceland volcanic eruption: barriers reinforced as lava flows towards town

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 17 March - 11:26

Flows pose danger to infrastructure in Grindavik, and hundreds of people are evacuated from nearby Blue Lagoon

Emergency teams worked through the night to bolster defensive barriers around the evacuated fishing town of Grindavik as lava from the fourth volcanic eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula since December again flowed towards it.

After weeks of warnings that semi-molten rock was building up under the ground, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said the eruption, at 8.23pm local time on Saturday, had opened a nearly 3km-long fissure in the earth between two mountains.

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Volcano in Iceland erupts for fourth time in three months

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 16 March - 23:53

Police declare state of emergency and evacuate local town of Grindavik following volcanic activity

Icelandic police have declared a state of emergency as lava spewed from a new volcanic fissure on the Reykjanes peninsula, the fourth eruption to hit the area since December.

A volcanic eruption “started between stora Skogfell and Hagafell on the Reykjanes Peninsula”, said a statement from the Icelandic Met Office (IMO) on Saturday. Live video images showed glowing lava and billowing smoke.