Rapid Fire
Iceland
- 27 Oct 2025
- 2 min read
Iceland, once one of the last mosquito-free places on Earth, has recorded its first-ever mosquitoes after the country’s hottest spring on record, highlighting how global warming is altering ecosystems even in the coldest parts of the planet.
- Driven by global warming, Iceland is heating up four times faster than the Northern Hemisphere, with rising temperatures and humidity now creating ideal conditions for mosquito survival, and breeding.
- Mosquitoes are cold-blooded and thrive in warm, humid conditions between 10°C and 35°C, with peak activity when humidity exceeds 42%.
Iceland
- Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic known as the "Land of Fire and Ice" for its glaciers and volcanoes. Its capital is Reykjavík, the world's northernmost capital city.
- Iceland's coastline meets the Greenland Sea (north), the Norwegian Sea ( east), and the Atlantic Ocean (south and west).
- The Denmark Strait separates Iceland from Greenland.
- Iceland is the only place to observe the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with its divergent volcanic and related earthquake dynamics of seafloor spreading.
- The Arctic fox is the only native land mammal on Iceland.
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