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 ...

Human activities are having a profound impact on the Iceland landscape. It is now transformed from a forested island covered with rich soils to mostly desert. Iceland's leading soil scientists are ...

The country lost most of its trees more than 1,000 years ago, when Viking settlers took their axes to the local forests. Now Icelanders would like those trees back, to improve and stabilize the ...

Human activities are having a profound impact on the Iceland landscape. It is now transformed from a forested island covered with rich soils to mostly desert. Iceland's leading soil scientists are ...

Human activities are having a profound impact on the Iceland landscape. It is now transformed from a forested island covered with rich soils to mostly desert. Iceland's leading soil scientists are ...

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 ...

Human activities are having a profound impact on the Iceland landscape. It is now transformed from a forested island covered with rich soils to mostly desert. Iceland's leading soil scientists are ...

Human activities are having a profound impact on the Iceland landscape. It is now transformed from a forested island covered with rich soils to mostly desert. Iceland's leading soil scientists are ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Before being colonized by the Vikings, Iceland was lush with forests, but the fearsome warriors razed everything to the ground and the nation is now struggling to reforest the ...

But reforesting, even in a small country like Iceland, is a huge amount of work. In recent years, Iceland has added as many as 3 million new trees annually, restoring about 123,000 acres of forests.

GUNNARSHOLT, Iceland — With his flats of saplings and a red planting tool, Jon Asgeir Jonsson is a foot soldier in the fight to reforest Iceland, working to bring new life to largely barren ...